· Private foundation
Gary Sisters Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $21,100 |
| KALAMAZOO JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $9,500 |
| COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO DROP-IN CHILD CARE | $5,000 |
| OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
| FIRST DAY SHOE FUND | $5,000 |
| SLD READ | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $4,000 |
| KALAMAZOO EASTSIDE BOXING | $4,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KJKALAMAZOO JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +25%
- KVKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +250%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- OOUTFRONTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CNCHILDRENS NATURE PLAYSCAPE CO FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CACOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +36%
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.
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.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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…
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
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.
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…
Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.
Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility
To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions
To ensure that all kalamazoo county youth have access to high quality, you-drive, diverse, inclusive, and equitable out-of-school time programs that will prepare them to be college or career ready by early adulthood.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds AACORN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO JUNIOR GIRLS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gary Sisters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary Sisters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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