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· Public charity

Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo

Support, promote and fund the arts in kalamazoo county.

$209k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$317kEducation$10kHuman Services$9k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $27,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $209,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $181,585 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.
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO$5,500
MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC$5,500
BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF KALAMAZOO$5,500
EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$5,500
WELLSPRINGCORI TERRY & DANCERS$5,500
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO: $12k → 10%BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF KALAMAZOO: $6k → 12%RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO: $6k → 10%WELLSPRINGCORI TERRY & DANCERS: $6k → 12%EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $6k → 12%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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 5 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
26

Total granted

$90k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+26%

Still filing today

60%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IS
    IRVING S GILMORE INT'L KEY FESTIVAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $24k
  • KC
    Kalamazoo Choral Arts Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +57%
  • RE
    RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue -20%

Funded once

  • KB
    KALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +55%
  • GA
    GLASS ART KALAMAZOO
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • SI
    SPEAK IT FORWARD INC
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
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
Kalamazoo Poetry Festival

Further the reading, writing, and performing of poetry through workshops, readings, and other educational programming.

Arts & Culture
2
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre

The mission of the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, with community partners and volunteers, is to create and deliver engaging, inspiring theatrical productions and educational experiences that spark delight, build community, encourage…

Unclassified
3
Rootstock Arts

Foster professional development of creative artists

Arts & Culture
4
Kalamazoo Concert Band

To further cultural growth of the community and stimulate continued interest in instrumental music by offering the opportunity for "post school" performances for its members.

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5
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

Kaleidoscope is a conductorless orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through exhilarating concert experience, artistic excellence, musician leadership, and connecting with the diverse communities of Los Angeles.

Arts & Culture
6
Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapid

The festival of the arts in grand rapids purpose is to bring various types of arts to the city of grand rapids, mi.

Arts & Culture
7
Live From Charlevoix Inc

Organization is formed to promote the performing and visual arts in charlevoix, michigan.`

Arts & Culture
8
Kalamazoo Cultural Center

Support of the arts council of greater kalamazoo

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan Jazz Festival

Promote jazz music through free concerts and individual concerts. money is raised through fundraisers to pay for expenes relating to the festival.

Arts & Culture
10
Milwaukee Community Orchestra Inc

Orchestral program for communit

Arts & Culture
11
Constellation Performing Arts

Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.

Arts & Culture
12
The Blaine H and Loa M Johnson Community Arts and Education Center
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Children's Chorus; the most unlike its peers is Kalamazoo Choral Arts Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 33 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IRVING S GILMORE INT'L KEY FESTIVAL: $24,350 · OtherIRVING S GILMORE INT'L KEY FESTIVALKalamazoo Choral Arts Inc: $20,500 · OtherKalamazoo Choral Arts IncPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: $14,500 · OtherPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORKGLASS ART KALAMAZOO: $12,550 · OtherSPEAK IT FORWARD INC: $12,500 · OtherWELLSPRINGCORI TERRY & DANCERS: $12,000 · OtherKALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE: $10,000 · OtherCOMSTOCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherMRC INDUSTRIES INC: $10,000 · OtherCRESCENDO ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $10,000 · OtherKALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 · OtherBlack Arts & Cultural Center: $10,000 · OtherNEW VIC THEATRICALS: $10,000 · OtherMICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC: $8,925 · OtherKALAMAZOO JUNIOR SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $8,925 · Other+9 more: $62,804 · Other+9 moreRENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO: $17,500 · Arts & CultureRENAISSANCE ENTERPRI…KALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS CENTER: $14,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS …ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $9,000 · Arts & CultureROOTEAD ENRICHMENT C…QUEER THEATRE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureQUEER THEATRE INCKALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $6,400 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S…Wellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers: $5,500 · Arts & CultureWellspring-Cori Terr…VIBRANT KALAMAZOO: $9,000 · ReligionMICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC: $5,500 · ReligionEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $13,500 · Community Improvement
Other$247,054Arts & Culture$61,400Religion$14,500Community Improvement$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKalamazoo Choral Arts Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetRENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO: $17,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetKALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS CENTER: $14,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $13,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBlack Arts & Cultural Center: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVIBRANT KALAMAZOO: $9,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $6,400 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers: $5,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC: $5,500 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

  • Who funds Kalamazoo Choral Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Arts & Cultural Center ↗
  • Who funds ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VIBRANT KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds QUEER THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
  • Who funds Wellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC ↗

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.

Harold and Grace Upjo…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Kalamazoo Community F…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…Tyler-Little Family F…John E Fetzer Institu…Enna FoundationThe Burdick-Thorne Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Amazonsmile Foundation
Harold and Grace Upjohn FoundationMI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Enna Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $164k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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