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Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust at a glance

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Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$163kReligion$128kHealth$56kEducation$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kCivil Rights$25kHousing & Shelter$19kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Day Foundation for Families$7,500
WALKING IN THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE$6,000
LITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY$5,000
THE SHUL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OFMETROPOLITAN$5,000
BEDS 4 KIDS$5,000
CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC$5,000
FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION$5,000
WESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE$4,685
ART CREATES US INC DBA PROJECT ART$4,500
VISTA MARIA$3,500
CAMP KESEM NATIONAL$3,500
ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES$3,500
Calvin University$3,500
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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $4k → 14%LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 5%Disability Connections Inc: $5k → 13%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $5k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $7k → 21%OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $3k → 8%Disability Connections Inc: $3k → 13%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $3k → 16%FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION: $7k → 16%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $3k → 16%FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION: $5k → 16%FOCUS HOPE: $3k → 21%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $3k → 16%FOCUS HOPE: $3k → 21%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $2k → 16%FOCUS HOPE: $3k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $12k → 8%FOCUS HOPE: $3k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $3k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 8%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $7k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $6k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 8%ST PATRIC SENIOR CENTER INC: $2k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN: $7k → 8%ANGEL'S PLACE: $4k → 8%ANGEL'S PLACE: $4k → 8%ANGEL'S PLACE: $3k → 8%ANGEL'S PLACE: $2k → 8%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$419k · 22 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$419k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +26%
  • MV
    MECHANICSVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +29%
  • F
    FOCUSHOPE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • POPE FRANCIS CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -64%
  • PV
    Presbyterian Villages of Michigan
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +15%
  • LC
    LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
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
Michigan Christian Home

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…

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2
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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3
Detroit Central City Cmh Inc

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.

Health
4
Lourdes Assisted Living Corporation

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…

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5
Catholic Human Services Inc

Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.

Human Services
6
St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Inc

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…

Health
7
Evangelical Homes of Michigan

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,…

Human Services
8
Trinity Continuing Care Services

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…

Health
9
Mariners Inn

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,…

Health
10
Shared Services Home Health Care Corp

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,…

Health
11
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
12
Lifechoices Inc

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,…

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

30 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. 30 of the 42 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST GREGORYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $36,500 · OtherST GREGORYS EPISCOPAL CHURCHST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $32,000 · OtherST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL CHURCHOUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH: $28,100 · OtherOUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCHEXODUS PLACE: $14,500 · OtherEXODUS PLACETHE SHUL: $13,500 · OtherTHE SHULVISTA MARIA: $13,500 · OtherVISTA MARIACENTER FOR FAMILY LITERACY VIRTUAL BOOK: $13,100 · OtherCENTER FOR FAMILY LITERACY VIRTUAL BOOKISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC: $12,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC+6 more: $30,500 · Other+6 moreLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $51,600 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INCFOCUSHOPE: $24,964 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPEHospice of Michigan Inc: $18,045 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan IncANGELS' PLACE: $12,985 · Human ServicesANGELS' PLACEFRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION INCOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $11,500 · Human ServicesOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICESDISABILITY CONNECTIONS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $6,500 · Human Services+4 more: $13,500 · Human Services+4 moreMECHANICSVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $44,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMECHANICS…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $12,500 · HealthCNS HEALTHCARE: $5,000 · HealthWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $4,685 · HealthLOURDES INC: $3,000 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INC: $2,000 · HealthCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationLITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY: $5,000 · EducationDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationICCF COMMUNITY HOMES: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterBEDS 4 KIDS: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterART CREATES US INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $4,148 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$193,700Human Services$193,594Public Safety & Disaster$44,500Health$27,185Education$17,500Housing & Shelter$17,000Arts & Culture$8,648Crime & Legal$5,000

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 budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $51,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMECHANICSVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $44,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $24,964 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $18,045 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $12,985 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetICCF COMMUNITY HOMES: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY CONNECTIONS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCNS HEALTHCARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBEDS 4 KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $4,148 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLUE WATER AREA: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLOURDES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…Michigan Health Endow…Detroit Industrial Sc…Phillip and Elizabeth…DTE Energy FoundationHess Wm G & Myrtle Ch…Aa Van Elslander Foun…Mary Thompson Foundat…Pulte Family Charitab…The Skillman Foundati…Consumers Energy Foun…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI33.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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