· Private foundation
Karen Colina Wilson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Hope Center | $10,000 |
| Wayne State University College of Engineering | $10,000 |
| Autism Alliance | $10,000 |
| Bridgepointe | $1,000 |
| Paint & Play 4 Kiddos | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
VISTA MARIA4× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +84%
AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN3× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +32%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SE MICHIGANone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CSCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Dpc uses awe-inspiring puppetry as a vehicle for a better tomorrow. dpc collaborates with the local commmunity to create inclusive spaces that bring together detroit and hamtramck residents with artists from around the country. the works…
Collection of new unused mittens to be distributed to those in need in the detroit, michigan and other nearby underserved cities.
Mission is to represent the interests and professional needs of psychiatric physicians in michigan while striving to ensure quality care for people with mental disorders and their families through promotion of education, research and…
To assist children
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rainbow Connection and the most unlike its peers is Paint and Play 4 Kiddos. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEET DREAMZZZ INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Michigan Philharmonic ↗
- Who funds THREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds METRO DETROIT SHARE GROUP ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds PAINT AND PLAY 4 KIDDOS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Ford Philanthropy · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Eagles for Children · The Kresge Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Karen Colina Wilson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.