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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 FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$52kHealth$34kFood & Nutrition$27kHuman Services$27kHousing & Shelter$15kEducation$11kPhilanthropy$8kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$836k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lumen Christi Foundation$2,750
Focus Hope$2,000
Clonlara$1,200
John George Home$1,000
Gleaners Community Food Bank$1,000
Capuchin Soup Kitchen$1,000
Covenant House Detroit$1,000
Jackson Community Food Pantry$1,000
Solanus Mission$1,000
Most Holy Trinity Parrish$1,000
Andy's Angels$1,000
Life Church Grand Haven$800
Dawn Farms$750
SAY Detroit$750
Food Gatherers$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lustgarten Foundation: $500 → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $500 → 6%Motor City Mitten Mission: $250 → 10%John George Home: $1k → 13%John George Home: $1k → 13%Detroit Phoenix Center: $500 → 21%John George Home: $800 → 13%The Hope Project: $500 → 15%John George Home: $550 → 13%John George Home: $500 → 13%John George Home: $250 → 13%St Vincent and Sara Fisher Center: $500 → 21%St Vincent and Sara Fisher Center: $250 → 21%John George Home: $250 → 13%The Empowerment Plan: $500 → 21%Empowerment Plan: $500 → 21%John George Home: $250 → 13%The Empowerment Plan: $100 → 21%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $250 → 8%Arbor Hospice: $750 → 14%Arbor Hospice: $500 → 14%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $250 → 8%Arbor Hospice: $500 → 14%Arbor Hospice: $500 → 14%Arbor Hospice: $500 → 14%Arbor Hospice: $250 → 14%Together We Can Make a Difference: $500 → 13%Focus Hope: $2k → 21%Easter Seals of Michigan: $2k → 8%Easter Seals of Michigan: $1k → 8%AWARE Inc: $500 → 13%Easter Seals of Michigan: $1k → 8%Focus Hope: $2k → 21%Focus Hope: $1k → 21%AWARE Inc: $250 → 13%AWARE Inc: $250 → 13%AWARE Inc: $250 → 13%St Vincent & Sarah Fisher Center: $500 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$185k · 81 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
53

Total granted

$185k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

53%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +202%
  • GC
    GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    7× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +29%
  • JG
    JOHN GEORGE HOME INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -41%
  • DR
    Detroit Rescue Mission Ministry
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • JR
    JEWISH RENAISSANCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
2
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

3
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
4
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

5
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
6
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…

7
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
8
Community & Home Supports Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

10
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
11
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

12
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…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySupportive Housing for Adul…Jewish Community Organizati…Youth Sports OrganizationsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Christian Leadership Traini…Healthcare Institutions and…Community Arts and Music Pr…Animal Shelter and RescueChild and Family ServicesChristian Outreach and Reli…Labor Union Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr18%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr18%30%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/78
the rest of the field
12%
6,510/53,778

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.

04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 143 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
45/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ohr Somayach — $17,700 · OtherOhr SomayachLumen Christi Foundation — $8,100 · OtherLumen Christi FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $6,750 · OtherUniversity of Michigan — $6,600 · OtherCovenant House Detroit — $6,105 · OtherCapuchin Soup Kitchen — $5,300 · Other+100 more — $95,136 · Other+100 moreJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $4,600 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE …FOCUSHOPE — $4,500 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPEEASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS …Arbor Hospice Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesArbor Hospic…Aware Inc — $1,250 · Human ServicesAware IncST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER — $1,250 · Human ServicesST VINCENT &…THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $1,100 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human Services+5 more — $2,250 · Human Services+5 moreGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $6,600 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $4,250 · Food & NutritionJACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $3,350 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $100 · Food & NutritionPenrickton Center for Blind Children — $4,000 · HealthDawn Incorporated — $2,750 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $1,600 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,075 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $750 · Health+1 more — $300 · HealthAquinas College — $2,500 · EducationClonlara Inc — $2,400 · EducationANDYS ANGELS — $2,000 · EducationKids Hope USA — $1,000 · EducationNorthwood University — $400 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationThe Scripps Howard Foundation — $1,350 · PhilanthropyTED LINDSAY FOUNDATION — $1,050 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS — $1,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $550 · PhilanthropyVERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $250 · PhilanthropySAY DETROIT — $2,250 · Housing & ShelterJackson Interfaith Shelter — $1,300 · Housing & Shelter
Other$145,691Human Services$22,450Food & Nutrition$14,300Health$12,975Education$8,550Philanthropy$4,200Housing & Shelter$3,550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan — $6,600 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $6,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $4,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSHOPE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children — $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $3,350 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArbor Hospice Inc — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDawn Incorporated — $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF LENAWEE — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAquinas College — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClonlara Inc — $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAY DETROIT — $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANDYS ANGELS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $1,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Scripps Howard Foundation — $1,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Interfaith Shelter — $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAware Inc — $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTED LINDSAY FOUNDATION — $1,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKids Hope USA — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS — $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor — $1,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CENTER — $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $510 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH CANTON LITTLE LEAGUE — $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOPE PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Michigan
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
  • Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC
  • Who funds FOCUSHOPE
  • Who funds FOOD GATHERERS
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
  • Who funds OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children
  • Who funds EASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC
  • Who funds HUDSON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN
  • Who funds Arbor Hospice Inc
  • Who funds Dawn Incorporated
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF LENAWEE
  • Who funds Aquinas College
  • Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE
  • Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
  • Who funds Clonlara Inc
  • Who funds SAY DETROIT
  • Who funds SOAR CAFE AND FARMS
  • Who funds ANDYS ANGELS
  • Who funds CASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER

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.

The Alvin L Glick FoundationMI27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Olson-Kulka Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Olson-Kulka Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Olson-Kulka Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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