Michigan · Nonprofit
The Konnection
The Konnection (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,389 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $520k
- Net assets
- $522k
What The Konnection does
Mission
Inspiring youth to broaden their horizons through positive relationships and healthy connections
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Konnection is a Detroit-based nonprofit organization committed to improving student attendance, school connectedness, and youth wellness through relationship-centered, school-based programming. In 2025, The Konnection provided mentoring, academic support, family engagement, leadership development, career exposure, enrichment activities, and basic-needs resources for youth across Detroit. Through programs like Konnection Klub, Konnection Kloset, Konnection Kudos, and hands-on career pathways in areas such as media, finance, construction, wellness, and entrepreneurship, students gained meaningful relationships, real-world exposure, and access to opportunities that help them stay engaged in school and inspired about their future.
$189,559 spentof which $447,241 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $189,559.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $384k to $576k (+50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 20% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Konnection’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sharnese Harris
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $700 → $310k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Konnection’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Konnection leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Konnection.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of The Konnection's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Konnection runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Konnection
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Konnection: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Konnection?
- The Konnection (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,389 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Konnection have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $520,389 in grants to The Konnection, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Konnection?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Konnection find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing