· Private foundation
Dr Joe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WALK TALL FOUNDATION FOR KIDS | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO | $20,000 |
| THE WEXFORD FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| FIRST DAY SHOE FUND | $15,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S | $15,000 |
| AACORN FARM | $12,000 |
| WILDPAKS | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOSPITAL HOSPITATLITY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $10,000 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MINSTRY WITH COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LOW COUNTRY | $3,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FDFIRST DAY SHOE FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +553%
- WFWEXFORD FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +372%
- MWMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- MCMATTAWAN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- EHEMMANUEL HOSPICEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +142%
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INCone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Lutheran adoption service (las) partners with the state of michigan to achieve permanency for children in the foster care system by facilitating their adoption into stable, loving families. las accomplishes this goal by providing an array…
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
Skilled nursing care for the elderly.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Protecting life. sharing the truth. empowering people to make healthy life choices
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is Faith & Gratitude Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds WEXFORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds AACORN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds MATTAWAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARROW & NEST DESIGNS ↗
- Who funds LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS ↗
- Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Faith & Gratitude Inc ↗
- Who funds HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dr Joe Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.