· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lumen Christi Foundation | $2,750 |
| Focus Hope | $2,000 |
| Clonlara | $1,200 |
| John George Home | $1,000 |
| Solanus Mission | $1,000 |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Capuchin Soup Kitchen | $1,000 |
| Andy's Angels | $1,000 |
| Most Holy Trinity Parrish | $1,000 |
| Covenant House Detroit | $1,000 |
| Jackson Community Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Life Church Grand Haven | $800 |
| Dawn Farms | $750 |
| SAY Detroit | $750 |
| Food Gatherers | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN7× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +29%
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +202%
- JGJOHN GEORGE HOME INC8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- OSOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -41%
- DRDetroit Rescue Mission Ministryone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
We honor life through donation.
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,…
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.…
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…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
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…
How this is measured
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- 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 Arbor Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Dawn Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LENAWEE ↗
- Who funds Clonlara Inc ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAFE AND FARMS ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ANDYS ANGELS ↗
- Who funds CASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Olson-Kulka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olson-Kulka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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