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Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Day Foundation for Families | $7,500 |
| WALKING IN THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE | $6,000 |
| LITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE SHUL | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OFMETROPOLITAN | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| BEDS 4 KIDS | $5,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE | $4,685 |
| ART CREATES US INC DBA PROJECT ART | $4,500 |
| ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES | $3,500 |
| CAMP KESEM NATIONAL | $3,500 |
| Calvin University | $3,500 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +26%
- MVMECHANICSVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +29%
- FFOCUSHOPE6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +51%
Funded once
POPE FRANCIS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -64%- PVPresbyterian Villages of Michiganone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +15%
- LCLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.
Lourdes senior community, inspired by the gospel of jesus and sponsored by the dominican sisters of peace, provides a broad continuum of care for seniors and their families. all who administer at lourdes honor the uniqueness of each person…
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
We, st. joseph mercy chelsea and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph mercy chelsea is a member of trinity health - michigan and…
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing services to persons who are elderly in manner which respects their rights,…
We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity continuing care services (d/b/a trinity health senior…
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing servcies to persons who are elderly in a manner which respects their rights,…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing services to persons who are elderly in manner which respects their rights,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vista Maria and the most unlike its peers is Literature Circle Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 42 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 LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds MECHANICSVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Villages of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BEDS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CNS HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds ART CREATES US INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLUE WATER AREA ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Detroit Industrial School · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Dte Energy Foundation · Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · Mary Thompson Foundation · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation
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 Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust 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.