· Private foundation
Lula C Wilson Trust Xxxxx3003
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 |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM | $25,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC | $25,000 |
| LOURDES INC | $22,000 |
| KIDS KICKING CANCER | $20,000 |
| THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC | $10,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB-METRO DETROIT | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +12%- HOHospice of Michigan Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +16%
- EAEton Academy5× · 2017–2021 · $96k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HTHERE TO HELP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -48%
- M6MICAH 6 COMMUNITYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- RAROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +21%
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide for the health and wellness needs of the underserved of Oakland County through the provision of comprehensive, integrated primary, behavioral health, and dental care.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
To meet our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose, and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
To provide market responsive programs to meet the employment and financial stability needs of mature individuals and other special populations along their career paths, to promote lifelong learning among individuals, businesses and…
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
The organization's mission is to support community-based, stakeholder driven training for care teams including physicians, care managers, care coordinators, medical assistants and behavioral health specialists; facilitate training and…
Creating healthy communities - together
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…
With the mission of "helping people move from crisis to hope," common ground is dedicated to helping youths, adults and families by providing programs and services in three distinct impact areas: responding to crisis; providing safety and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judson Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Here to Help Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 32 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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds The Art Experience Inc ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PONTIAC'S LITTLE ART THEATRE ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABIDE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HERE TO HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICAH 6 COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Response Team ↗
- Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EISENHOWER DANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
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 · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Eagles for Children · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Carls Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Mary Thompson Foundation · The Barton Malow 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 Lula C Wilson Trust Xxxxx3003 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.