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Thrilla Gives Inc

Giving back to our community and leaving a meaningful impact.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$178kPhilanthropy$88kHuman Services$63kPublic Benefit$13kRecreation & Sports$11kArts & Culture$10kEducation$7k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $111,591, the rows itemized in this filing. The $137,334 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,743 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHELBY TOWNSHIP LIONS CHARITIES$47,688
HENRY FORD HOSPITAL$25,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$20,000
DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB$10,626
FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS$8,277
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25k → 17%JDRF: $25k → 8%FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $15k → 10%DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB: $11k → 21%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $23k → 17%JDRF: $10k → 8%FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $10k → 10%HENRY FORD HOSPITAL: $28k → 21%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20k → 17%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $8k → 10%WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS YOUTH: $10k → 21%NEIGHBORS UNITED: $13k → 10%HENRY FORD HOSPITAL: $25k → 21%FAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICS: $20k → 10%RUGIERO FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%FAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICS: $10k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 6 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$306k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
HealthPublic BenefitScience & TechPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    SHELBY TOWNSHIP LIONS CHARITIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $88k · revenue +125%
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +8%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • NU
    NEIGHBORS UNITED
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +13%
  • AO
    ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS YOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Gilda's Club Metro Detroit

Gilda's club metro detroit ensures that all people impacted by cancer are empowered with knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

Arts & Culture
2
Michigan Cancer Society

To operate exclusively for the benefit of Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and transfer to it all amounts received to promote the control of cancer through programs of research, care, detection, prevention, and education.

Health
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation

Oregon health & science university is a nonprofit organization established in 1970 to secure private philanthropic support to advance ohsu's vital missions, and to invest and manage gifts responsibly to honor donors' wishes.

Education
5
National Tuberous Sclerosis Association

To improve quality of life for everyone affected by tuberous sclerosis complex by catalyzing new treatments, driving research toward a cure and expanding access to lifelong support.

Health
6
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
7
Detroit Lions Charities

Detroit lions charities (the "charities") is the nonprofit community funding extension of detroit lions, inc. during fiscal year 2020, the charities was granted a d/b/a for charities: detroit lions foundation. the charities invest in…

Philanthropy
8
Michigan Operation Freedom Outdoors
Human Services
9
Nf Team Foundation

The NF Team Foundation's mission is to empower and support the NF Community through funding vital medical research tht will lead to effective treatments and a cure for Neurofibromatosis (NF).

Human Services
10
Friends of Jacob

To provide support for families with autistic children in the state of michigan by issuing grants for financial support and hosting events for families to share their experiences and challenges associated with raising an autistic child.

—
11
Mymichigan Home Care

Creating healthy communities - together

—
12
Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America Inc

FMDSA is a public healthcare related charity working towards better diagnosis and treatments for Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD). The organization is engaged in funding and facilitating research, physician education and support, building…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Ford Health System; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $67,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $53,483 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $35,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DSHELBY TOWNSHIP LIONS CHARITIES: $87,688 · OtherSHELBY TOWNSHIP LIONS CHARITIESFAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICS: $29,500 · OtherFAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICSANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATIONDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB: $10,626 · OtherDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUBOAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $33,277 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF…NEIGHBORS UNITED: $13,116 · Public BenefitWAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS YOUTH: $10,125 · Arts & CultureRUGIERO PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Health$155,983Other$147,314Philanthropy$33,277Public Benefit$13,116Arts & Culture$10,125Science & Tech$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 budgetSHELBY TOWNSHIP LIONS CHARITIES: $87,688 over 2y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $67,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $53,483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $33,277 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORS UNITED: $13,116 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS YOUTH: $10,125 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetRUGIERO PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thrilla Gives Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thrilla Gives Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Thrilla Gives Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Thrilla Gives Inc 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 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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