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Enna Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.5MHuman Services$845kReligion$530kArts & Culture$517kPhilanthropy$439kYouth Development$335kCrime & Legal$287kEducation$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO$175,000
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$150,000
ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER$150,000
KALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC$119,500
COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS$115,000
YWCA KALAMAZOO$100,000
INTERFAITH STRATEGY FOR ADVOCACY AND ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY$100,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$80,000
UNITED WAY OF SC MI$75,000
GIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC$75,000
KALAMAZOO CLIMATE CRISIS COALITION$72,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$70,000
RIPPLE EFFECTS COMMUNITY INCLUSION CENTER$68,942
MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO$55,000
COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS$55,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ROAD TO SUCCESSES: $41k → 16%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $200k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $75k → 12%KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $50k → 12%KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $50k → 12%DREAM OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $20k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $75k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $50k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $15k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $5k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 27 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

$4.2M
$741k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

81%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $524k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $288k · revenue +38%
  • RE
    ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $267k · revenue +26%
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $237k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • ES
    ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • HA
    HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -62%
  • YW
    YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…

Public Benefit
2
Can-Do Kalamazoo

Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Food & Nutrition
3
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.

Animals
4
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program

Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility

Crime & Legal
5
Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv

It is the mission of Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services (KNHS), together with residents and community partners, to revitalize neighborhoods and promote comprehensive strategies that foster homeownership.

Housing & Shelter
6
Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association

To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…

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7
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
8
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
9
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions

Arts & Culture
10
Kalamazoo Literacy Council

The kalamazoo literacy council (klc) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization committed to enhancing the lives of adults by improving their reading, writing, spelling and comprehension skills. the klc was founded in 1974 and is the only…

Education
11
South County Community Services

South county community services (sccs) is the only human service agency dedicated to serving the 25,000 residents who live in the southern tier of kalamazoo county. with a mission to work with families to improve quality of life, the…

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12
Kalamazoo Experiential Learning Center

The mission of the kalamazoo experiential learning center is to provide an onsite workplace for college interns that strategically place students in placemaking initiatives that foster best practices and create educational opportunities…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Road to Successes. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%9%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr20%34%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%10%<5yr13%9%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr20%14%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
9%
114/1,252

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
20/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YWCA KALAMAZOO — $300,000 · OtherYWCA KALAMAZOOFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $260,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHSWEETS 4 HOMELESS INC — $215,000 · OtherSWEETS 4 HOMELESS INCST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $165,000 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $105,000 · OtherHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $100,000 · OtherINTERFAITH STRATEGY FOR ADVOCACY AND ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY — $200,000 · OtherINTERFAITH STRATEGY FOR ADVOCACY AND ACTION IN THE C…RICHLAND AREA COMMUNITY CENTER — $120,000 · Other+28 more — $1,129,492 · Other+28 moreOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO — $700,000 · Housing & ShelterOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOOCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC — $288,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS …KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesECUMENICAL S…FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHI…YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $100,000 · Human ServicesYWCA WEST CE…KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES — $100,000 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO HO…ROAD TO SUCCESSES — $40,600 · Human ServicesROAD TO SUCC…DREAM OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesFIRST DAY SHOE FUND — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $224,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $165,000 · PhilanthropyUrban Alliance Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER — $267,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK — $40,000 · Arts & CultureWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentKALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC — $236,500 · Crime & LegalBENT NOT BROKEN BY H5 — $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,594,492Housing & Shelter$1,038,000Human Services$640,600Philanthropy$409,000Arts & Culture$327,000Youth Development$310,000Crime & Legal$286,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO — $700,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC — $288,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER — $267,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC — $236,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $224,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetINTERFAITH STRATEGY FOR ADVOCACY AND ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY — $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $165,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $160,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC — $150,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRICHLAND AREA COMMUNITY CENTER — $120,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $105,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES — $100,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $85,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO — $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRIPPLE EFFECTS COMMUNITY INCLUSION CENTER — $68,942 over 1y, 33% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center — $67,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO — $57,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBENT NOT BROKEN BY H5 — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMRC Industries Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK — $40,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Arts & Cultural Center — $35,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetDREAM OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT — $28,450 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND — $25,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $20,600 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Alliance Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers — $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDAT — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Harold and Grace Upjo…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…United Way of South C…The Ronda E Stryker a…Tyler-Little Family F…John E Fetzer Institu…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…WK Kellogg Foundation
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI82.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation

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 Enna 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Enna Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Enna Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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