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Joe Kocur Foundation for Children

Contribute monies to charities which primarily benefit disabled and disadvantaged children.

$22k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,600
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,600
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$129k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Joe Kocur Foundation for Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’21’23
HealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$22k0%
FY20232$25k50%
FY20213$26k33%
FY20195$68k0%
FY20188$84k25%
FY20177$68kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$153kRecreation & Sports$41kEducation$38kPublic Benefit$36kCrime & Legal$12kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts$75,35261%
Wings of Mercy East Michigan Inc$48,552516%
Huron Valley Schools$37,5523n/a
Thv Inc$35,6523n/a
Play Like Jackson$35,5523n/a
Team Kendal Kidz$22,052230%
Genesee County Parks & Recreation Commission$12,0181n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities Det$8,33310%
Cure Rare Disease Inc$7,50010%
Kensington Valley Hockey Association Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of Joe Kocur Foundation for Children by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts$75,35261%
Wings of Mercy East Michigan Inc$48,552516%
Huron Valley Schools$37,5523n/a
Thv Inc$35,6523n/a
Play Like Jackson$35,5523n/a
Team Kendal Kidz$22,052230%
Genesee County Parks & Recreation Commission$12,0181n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities Det$8,33310%
Cure Rare Disease Inc$7,50010%
Kensington Valley Hockey Association Inc$5,00010%
West Michigan Elite Hockey Club$5,0001n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Joe Kocur Foundation for Children?

Find your warmest path to Joe Kocur Foundation for Children through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Joe Kocur Foundation for Children

How much does Joe Kocur Foundation for Children give?
Joe Kocur Foundation for Children reported 2 grants totaling $21,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Joe Kocur Foundation for Children fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (52%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Education (13%).
Who are Joe Kocur Foundation for Children's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts ($75k), Wings of Mercy East Michigan Inc ($49k), Huron Valley Schools ($38k).
Does Joe Kocur Foundation for Children fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joe Kocur Foundation for Children?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Joe Kocur Foundation for Children based?
Joe Kocur Foundation for Children is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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