Michigan · Private foundation
Olson-Kulka Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $836k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Olson-Kulka Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $29k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $24k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $14k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $13k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $37k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $22k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $27k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $31k | 88% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $6,600 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $6,600 | 4 | 1% |
| John George Home Inc | $4,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Focushope | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $4,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Gatherers | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Ohr Somayach International Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Penrickton Center for Blind Children | $4,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Easterseals Morc Health Care Inc | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hudson Foundation | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Olson-Kulka Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The L H Field Family Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan
How this is measured
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About Olson-Kulka Foundation
- How much does Olson-Kulka Foundation give?
- Olson-Kulka Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $28,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Olson-Kulka Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Olson-Kulka Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($7k), University of Michigan ($7k), John George Home Inc ($5k).
- Does Olson-Kulka Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olson-Kulka Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Olson-Kulka Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alvin L Glick Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.
- Where is Olson-Kulka Foundation based?
- Olson-Kulka Foundation is based in MI.
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