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Bronson Health Foundation

As the philanthropic arm of the bronson healthcare system, Bronson Health Foundation builds relationships with individuals and organizations to connect their generous support with bronson's healing missions.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$48,623
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,352,451
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$31M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Bronson Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$5.9M10%
FY202310$6.2M20%
FY202211$7.5M18%
FY20219$8.0M11%
FY20209$9.7M0%
FY201911$6.1M9%
FY201812$3.6M17%
FY201710$2.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$49MPublic Safety & Disaster$146kEducation$132kRecreation & Sports$118kHuman Services$52kArts & Culture$47kCrime & Legal$38kPhilanthropy$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Bronson Health Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital$21,617,36882%
Bronson Methodist Hospital$18,917,88380%
Bronson Healthcare Group$5,619,34380%
Bronson South Haven Hospital$2,025,79181%
Bronson Lakeview Hospital$645,86380%
Vbems Inc$194,16322%
Bronson At Home$147,84130%
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation$120,00081%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo$117,53780%
Bronson Nursing & Rehabilitation Center$109,78650%
Glass Art Kalamazoo$71,19835%
YWCA of Kalamazoo Nonprofit Housing Corporation$51,845280%
Safe Kids Kalamazoo$38,4712n/a
American Cancer Societyrelay for Life$20,7433n/a
Bronson Properties Corp$20,30020%
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker Md School of Medicine$17,95510%
Kellogg Community College Foundation$12,17110%
Impact Melanoma Inc$6,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bronson Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBronson Battle Creek Hospital: $21,617,368 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBronson Methodist Hospital: $18,917,883 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBronson Healthcare Group: $5,619,343 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBronson South Haven Hospital: $2,025,791 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBronson Lakeview Hospital: $645,863 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVbems Inc: $194,163 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBronson At Home: $147,841 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation: $120,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $117,537 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBronson Nursing & Rehabilitation Center: $109,786 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGlass Art Kalamazoo: $71,198 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetYWCA of Kalamazoo Nonprofit Housing Corporation: $51,845 over 2y, 80% of budgetBronson Properties Corp: $20,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Michigan University Homer Stryker Md School of Medicine: $17,955 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKellogg Community College Foundation: $12,171 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImpact Melanoma Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Bronson Health Foundation

How much does Bronson Health Foundation give?
Bronson Health Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $5,862,580 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bronson Health Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (99%), Public Safety & Disaster (0%), Education (0%).
Who are Bronson Health Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bronson Battle Creek Hospital ($22M), Bronson Methodist Hospital ($19M), Bronson Healthcare Group ($5.6M).
Does Bronson Health Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bronson Health Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Bronson Health Foundation based?
Bronson Health Foundation is based in MI.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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