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Kukacares at a glance

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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.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$66kEducation$52kHuman Services$50kHealth$49kFood & Nutrition$27kCommunity Improvement$10kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $13,660, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $133,655 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$137k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RAINBOW CONNECTION$7,500
STERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT$6,160
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Rainbow Connection: $11k → 8%Toys for tots: $21k → 10%United Way for Southeastern Michigan: $25k → 21%HOLDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $20k → 12%THE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $8k → 8%The Rainbow Connection: $15k → 10%United Way for Southeastern Michigan: $10k → 21%THE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $8k → 8%STERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT: $6k → 10%United Way for Southeastern Michigan: $10k → 21%The Rainbow Connection: $8k → 8%WINNING FUTURES: $10k → 10%Gleaners Community Food Bank: $27k → 21%Mission Oakland: $10k → 8%ROMEO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $22k → 10%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $20k → 8%FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $20k → 10%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 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.

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Covenant House Michigan

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…

Human Services
2
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

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,…

Employment
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Friends of the Children - Detroit

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Gesher Human Services

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…

Employment
6
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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7
Onward Hope Incorporated

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.

Human Services
8
Caring for Kids Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Wooden Fish Parents First

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…

Education
10
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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11
Focushope

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…

Human Services
12
The Futures Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROMEO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $22,000 · OtherROMEO COMMUNITY SCHOOLSHOLDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherHOLDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $20,000 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPESTERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT: $6,160 · OtherSTERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPTTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $48,500 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CONNECTIO…UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUNITED WAY FOR SOUT…MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $20,895 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR T…FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF FOSTER…GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $27,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS CO…WINNING FUTURES: $10,000 · EducationHOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $10,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OAKLAND: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$68,160Health$48,500Public Safety & Disaster$45,000Philanthropy$40,895Food & Nutrition$27,000Education$10,000Human Services$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $48,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $20,895 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWINNING FUTURES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

The Barton Malow Foun…Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Barton Malow FoundationMI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Barton Malow Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kukacares funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kukacares. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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 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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