· Public charity
Kukacares
KUKACARES mission is to directly support the well-being of the families in the kuka community and those families serving in the kuka community and to aid in the relief of the distressed or underprivileged.
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.
The 2 grants below total $13,660 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $147,315 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $133,655 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RAINBOW CONNECTION | $7,500 |
| STERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT | $6,160 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Gesher human services is a bridge to hope and opportunity for people at work, at home, and in the community. gesher's workforce development, behavioral health, and inclusion programming serves all metro detroiters while meeting the needs…
To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.
We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources.
Caring for kids, inc. (cfk) is a private, non-profit, full-service adoption and foster care agency operating since 1995. cfk specializes in diverse and inclusive birth parent, foster care, adoption and behavioral health services. our…
Our mission is to provide exceptional care and resources for children and families, while fostering each child's intellectual, social, physical, and moral development in a safe and nurturing environment. wooden fish parents first provides…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Focus: hope is a non-profit civil and human rights organization. founded in 1968, its mission is to promote intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice in metropolitan detroit. the organization focuses on…
The mission of the futures foundation is to be a voice for people with developmental disabilities by helping individuals get access to everyday fundamental needs, facilitating creation of ways to address systemic needs and being a catalyst…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mission Oakland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds HOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds MISSION OAKLAND ↗
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: The Barton Malow Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kukacares 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.