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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.4M
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 2024.

Health$49MPublic Safety & Disaster$146kEducation$132kRecreation & Sports$118kHuman Services$52kArts & Culture$47kCrime & Legal$38kPhilanthropy$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $171k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.5M
$48,623
Median grant
2
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bronson Methodist Hospital$2,352,451
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital$1,780,975
Bronson Healthcare Group$1,393,925
Bronson South Haven Hospital$170,732
Van Buren EMS$48,623
Bronson Lakeview Hospital$44,548
GLASS ART KALAMAZOO$24,495
KVCC FOUNDATION$15,000
KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$12,171
YMCA OF GREATER TOLEDO$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $4.2M → 12%BRONSON BATTLE CREEK HOSPITAL: $4.1M → 14%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $406k → 14%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $4.1M → 12%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $375k → 14%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $3.0M → 12%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $352k → 14%YMCA STORER CAMPS: $24k → 18%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $2.3M → 12%BRONSON AT HOME: $72k → 14%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $321k → 14%YMCA STORER CAMPS: $20k → 18%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $1.7M → 12%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $262k → 14%YMCA STORER CAMPS: $20k → 18%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $1.2M → 12%Bronson South Haven Hospital: $171k → 14%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $841k → 12%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $83k → 14%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $798k → 12%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $56k → 14%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $748k → 12%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $591k → 12%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $567k → 12%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $488k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $292k → 12%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $167k → 12%BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP: $157k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $153k → 12%VBEMS: $146k → 12%BRONSON AT HOME: $67k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $48k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $46k → 12%YWCA OF KALAMAZOO: $40k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $36k → 12%KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES: $32k → 12%SAFE KIDS KALAMAZOO: $31k → 12%GLASS ART KALAMAZOO: $24k → 12%GLASS ART KALAMAZOO: $24k → 12%GLASS ART KALAMAZOO: $23k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $22k → 12%BRONSON COMMONS: $49k → 12%BRONSON COMMONS: $33k → 12%WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $18k → 12%Bronson Methodist Hospital: $2.4M → 12%Bronson Healthcare Group: $1.4M → 12%Van Buren EMS: $49k → 12%Bronson Lakeview Hospital: $45k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50M · 15 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$50M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+16%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BB
    Bronson Battle Creek Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +52%
  • BM
    Bronson Methodist Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +65%
  • BH
    Bronson Healthcare Group
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $32k
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +10%
  • IM
    IMPACT MELANOMA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +16%
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 Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
2
Kankakee Community College Foundation

Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college

Education
3
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
4
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Holding Company

Serve as a title holding company for the benefit of kalamazoo valley community college.

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5
Dakota County Technical College Foundation

The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.

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6
Kalamazoo Community Foundation

Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

Philanthropy
7
Akron Community Foundation

To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…

Philanthropy
8
Walla Walla Community College Foundation

The wwcc foundation's mission is support student access and educational excellence at walla walla community college.

Education
9
Heritage Community of Kalamazoo Foundation Inc

We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community

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10
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo

Support, promote and fund the arts in kalamazoo county.

Arts & Culture
11
Cambridge Community College Foundation

The mission of the cambridge campus foundation fulfills the potential of the students in east central minnesota, by expanding their opportunities and broadening their horizons with an affordable education and promise of a strong future.

Philanthropy
12
Salish Kootenai College Foundation Inc

To ensure that salish kootenai college has the ability to provide quality post-secondary education opportunities for native americans locally and throughout the united states.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battle Creek Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Impact Melanoma 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

18 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. 18 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bronson Battle Creek Hospital: $21,617,368 · HealthBronson Battle Creek HospitalBronson Methodist Hospital: $18,917,883 · HealthBronson Methodist HospitalBronson Healthcare Group: $5,619,343 · HealthBronson Healthcare Group+6 more: $1,123,953 · HealthBronson South Haven Hospital: $2,025,791 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $117,537 · Other+3 more: $91,070 · OtherKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $17,955 · EducationKELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,171 · EducationGLASS ART KALAMAZOO: $71,198 · Arts & CultureYWCA OF KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $51,845 · Housing & ShelterBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,743 · PhilanthropyTHE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Health$47,278,547Other$2,234,398Education$150,126Arts & Culture$71,198Housing & Shelter$51,845Philanthropy$35,743

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 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 budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,743 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,171 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT MELANOMA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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 F…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Impact Melanoma Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.

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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