· Private foundation
George and Amy Monroe Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEAN WATER FUND | $28,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $28,500 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $28,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $28,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +126%- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +33%
SENIOR SERVICES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- KGKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGANone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SLSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -6%
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To improve our communities by providing and maintaining safe, healthy, affordable homeownership opportunities for low-to-moderate income community members, in partnership with volunteers and organizations throughout the community.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Provide home ownership opportunities to low-income households and make repairs to existing homes for very low-income homeowners.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity serving winona county…
The fair housing center of west michigan's mission is to ensure fair housing choice and equal access to housing opportunities for all. through education and advocacy, we affirm the right of all people to choose where they live, free from…
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.
Hands across the water supports and empowers children and families through inclusive, strengths-based services. we envision a community where every child is valued and has a safe home and loving family where they can thrive. in keeping…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Michigan Land Conservency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Specialized Language Development Center 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
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 · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 George and Amy Monroe 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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