Michigan · Private foundation
Kolassa Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $849k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Kolassa Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $58k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $82k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $50k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $56k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $56k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $64k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $50k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $45k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binder Park Zoological Society Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center | $53,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Haven of Rest Ministries of Battle Creek | $16,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Brass Band of Battle Creek | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Charitable Union | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Starr Commonwealth | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($319k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation · Burnham Family Foundation · Miller Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kolassa Family Foundation
- How much does Kolassa Family Foundation give?
- Kolassa Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $58,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kolassa Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Animals (18%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Kolassa Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ($90k), Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ($53k), The Haven of Rest Ministries of Battle Creek ($16k).
- Does Kolassa Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kolassa Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kolassa Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Battle Creek Community Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, Feldpausch Foundation.
- Where is Kolassa Family Foundation based?
- Kolassa Family Foundation is based in MI.
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