How much does Kinexus Youth Solutions give?

Kinexus Youth Solutions reported 25 grants totaling $3,409,593 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Kinexus Youth Solutions fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (56%), Youth Development (43%), Education (1%).

Who are Kinexus Youth Solutions's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation ($3.8M), Southeast Michigan Community Alliance ($2.9M), Northwest Michigan Works Inc ($2.7M).

Does Kinexus Youth Solutions fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Kinexus Youth Solutions based?

Kinexus Youth Solutions is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

Kinexus Youth Solutions

To equip young people with the skills to overcome barriers and success in education, employment, and in life.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 25
Grants FY2025: 23
Organizations funded FY2024: 26%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $93,141
Largest grant, FY2025: $447,656
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 23; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Kinexus Youth Solutions funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	23	$3.4M	22%
FY2024	23	$3.5M	26%
FY2023	16	$3.3M	0%
FY2022	19	$2.9M	26%
FY2021	14	$2.5M	0%
FY2020	13	$2.1M	38%
FY2019	9	$2.0M	0%
FY2018	9	$1.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Employment$12MYouth Development$9.1MEducation$254k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation	$3,775,829	8	1%
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance	$2,871,464	8	2%
Northwest Michigan Works Inc	$2,744,671	8	8%
Gst Michigan Works	$2,521,608	8	n/a
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation	$1,568,285	8	1%
Michigan Works Job Force Board	$1,307,147	8	n/a
Capital Area Michigan Works Foundation	$993,402	8	n/a
Michigan Works Region 7b	$862,678	6	n/a
Michigan Works Southeast Workforce Development Board	$839,501	6	n/a
Michigan Works Northeast	$705,587	8	n/a

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All grantees of Kinexus Youth Solutions by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation	$3,775,829	8	1%
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance	$2,871,464	8	2%
Northwest Michigan Works Inc	$2,744,671	8	8%
Gst Michigan Works	$2,521,608	8	n/a
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation	$1,568,285	8	1%
Michigan Works Job Force Board	$1,307,147	8	n/a
Capital Area Michigan Works Foundation	$993,402	8	n/a
Michigan Works Region 7b	$862,678	6	n/a
Michigan Works Southeast Workforce Development Board	$839,501	6	n/a
Michigan Works Northeast	$705,587	8	n/a
Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc	$695,242	6	1%
Acset	$655,808	7	n/a
Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency	$354,035	4	n/a
Kent Intermediate School District	$351,718	5	n/a
The Institute for Excellence in Education	$254,290	4	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Southwest Michigan	$171,116	2	2%
Michigan Works West Central	$154,211	2	n/a
Eau Claire Public Schools	$146,694	4	n/a
Muskegon Heights Public School Academy	$79,282	3	n/a
Great Lakes Bay Mi Michigan Works Administration	$63,907	1	n/a
Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency Foundation	$30,000	1	13%
Peckham Vocational Industries Inc Dba Peckham Inc	$22,172	2	0%
Grand Rapids Public Schools	$20,000	2	n/a
Calhoun Intermediate School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Saginaw Intermediate School District	$10,000	1	n/a
West Shore Educational Service District	$10,000	1	n/a
Berrien Resa	$10,000	1	n/a
Hope Academy of West Michigan	$10,000	1	n/a
Brighton Area Schools	$5,290	1	n/a
Covert Public School	$5,001	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kinexus Youth Solutions supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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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.

Michigan College Access NetworkMI19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan College Access Network · Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association Inc · Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation · United Way of the Lakeshore

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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About Kinexus Youth Solutions

How much does Kinexus Youth Solutions give?: Kinexus Youth Solutions reported 25 grants totaling $3,409,593 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kinexus Youth Solutions fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (56%), Youth Development (43%), Education (1%).
Who are Kinexus Youth Solutions's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation ($3.8M), Southeast Michigan Community Alliance ($2.9M), Northwest Michigan Works Inc ($2.7M).
Does Kinexus Youth Solutions fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kinexus Youth Solutions?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan College Access Network, Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association Inc, Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation.
Where is Kinexus Youth Solutions based?: Kinexus Youth Solutions is based in MI.