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Karen Colina Wilson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Karen Colina Wilson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$106kHuman Services$102kEducation$72kYouth Development$33kInternational$20kArts & Culture$13kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Hope Center$10,000
Wayne State University College of Engineering$10,000
Autism Alliance$10,000
Paint & Play 4 Kiddos$1,000
Bridgepointe$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEROES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 5%AUTISM ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%STUDENT ADVOCACY: $8k → 14%HEAVENLY HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 15%COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE: $10k → 10%THE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $5k → 8%FIRST STEP: $11k → 21%COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE USA: $10k → 10%HEAVENLY HOPE OUTREACH: $2k → 8%FIRST STEP: $11k → 21%COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE: $10k → 10%New Hope Center: $10k → 8%FIRST STEP: $11k → 21%COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE USA: $10k → 10%CORNERSTONE EDUCATION GROUP: $8k → 8%MICHIGAN PHILHARMONIC: $3k → 21%GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $5k → 8%MICHIGAN PHILHARMONIC: $3k → 21%MICHIGAN PHILHARMONIC: $3k → 21%AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $5k → 21%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%METRO DETROIT SHARE: $5k → 21%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SE MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%VISTA MARIA: $10k → 21%Autism Alliance: $10k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $6k → 21%THE HENRY FORD: $5k → 21%FOCUS DETROIT: $2k → 21%Wayne State University College of Engineering: $10k → 21%THE HENRY FORD: $5k → 21%FOCUS DETROIT: $2k → 21%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 21%THE HENRY FORD: $5k → 21%FOOTE ELEMENTARY: $10k → 21%KEPPEN ELEMENTARY: $3k → 21%CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%VISTA MARIA: $10k → 21%VISTA MARIA: $10k → 21%VISTA MARIA: $9k → 21%GIRL SCOUTS: $5k → 21%GIRL SCOUTS OF SE MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%GIRL SCOUTS: $5k → 21%WAYNE METRO: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$241k · 13 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$241k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

46%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
HealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VISTA MARIA
    4× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +84%
  • AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN
    3× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +32%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CS
    CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SE MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Detroit Parent Network

To be a champion for parents of children in the community.

Human Services
2
Brilliant Detroit

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.

Youth Development
3
Association for Children's Mental Health

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.

Health
4
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
5
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
6
Detroit Puppet Company

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Mittens for Detroit Inc

Collection of new unused mittens to be distributed to those in need in the detroit, michigan and other nearby underserved cities.

Human Services
8
Michigan Club Squash
Recreation & Sports
9
Michigan Psychiatric Society

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…

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10
Pediatric Foudnation of Michig Inc

To assist children

Health
11
About Face Detroit
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12
Michigan Foster Care Closet

Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rainbow Connection; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISTA MARIA: $38,682 · OtherVISTA MARIAFIRST STEP: $33,000 · OtherFIRST STEPCOMPASSIONATE RESPONSE: $20,000 · OtherCOMPASSIONATE RESPONSEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSWEET DREAMZZZ INC: $15,756 · OtherSWEET DREAMZZZ INCTHE HENRY FORD: $15,000 · OtherTHE HENRY FORDIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS: $10,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherWayne State University College of Engineering: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SE MICHIGAN: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,846 · Other+13 more: $57,300 · Other+13 moreAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $30,000 · HealthAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHI…BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATI…American Heart Association Inc: $19,985 · HealthAmerican Heart Associati…THE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $5,000 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CONNECTIONMETRO DETROIT SHARE GROUP: $4,500 · HealthMETRO DETROIT SHARE GROU…GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HOPE SHELTER: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGEPOINTE INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$259,584Health$79,485Arts & Culture$12,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Youth Development$5,000Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVISTA MARIA: $38,682 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $19,985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET DREAMZZZ INC: $15,756 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNEW HOPE SHELTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPOINTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds METRO DETROIT SHARE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds PAINT AND PLAY 4 KIDDOS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPOINTE INC ↗

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.

DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Helen L Kay Charitabl…Ford PhilanthropyPhillip and Elizabeth…Eagles for ChildrenThe Kresge FoundationRaymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…
DTE Energy FoundationMI17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Karen Colina Wilson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen Colina Wilson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 35 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-PF 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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