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Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$902k
Granted FY2022
49
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of GUIDO A BINDA AND ELIZABETH H BINDA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 49 grants below total $511,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $901,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $389,950 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k29 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Ctr.$100,000
Kalamazoo Youth Development Network$50,000
RISE Corp.$25,000
Calhoun Intermediate School District$25,000
Friends of the Bohm Theatre$25,000
Music Center of South Central Michigan$20,000
Charitable Union$20,000
South Michigan Food Bank$20,000
Brass Band of Battle Creek$20,000
Music Center of South Central Michigan$15,000
Voces$15,000
Southwestern Michigan Urban League$15,000
Washington Heights United Methodist$15,000
Music Center of South Central Michigan$12,000
United Way of South Central Michigan$12,000
02Your 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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$304k · 12 repeat orgs$771k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$304k
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

58%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • MUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI
    2× · 2021–2022 · $72k · revenue +74%
  • BB
    Brass Band of Battle Creek
    2× · 2021–2022 · $61k · revenue +34%
  • CU
    CHARITABLE UNION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $48k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CC
    Calhoun County Health Department
    one grant, 2021 · $145k
  • SL
    Sherman Lake Y Camp
    one grant, 2021 · $105k
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters
    one grant, 2021 · $37k

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

03Your 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
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
3
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
4
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
5
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre

The mission of the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, with community partners and volunteers, is to create and deliver engaging, inspiring theatrical productions and educational experiences that spark delight, build community, encourage…

Unclassified
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
7
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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8
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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9
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
10
Kalamazoo Nature Center

Create relationships & experiences that welcome and inspire people to discover, enjoy, value, and care for nature. Kalamazoo Nature Center envisions a resilient community where all people have strong interconnections with the natural world.

Environment
11
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
12
Michiana Partnership Inc

The south bend - elkhart regional partnership focuses on a long-term systemic approach to advance the region's economy by aligning the efforts of various stakeholders around five key areas: educating a world-class workforce, recruiting and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battle Creek Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYmca Community CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesUnited Way AffiliatesFood Pantries and AssistanceImmigrant and Latino Integr…Environmental Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterChristian Outreach Ministri…Community FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Hospital SystemsClassical Music OrchestrasFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%19%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr18%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%37%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,824

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.

03the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Calhoun County Health Department — $145,000 · OtherCalhoun County Health DepartmentSherman Lake Y Camp — $105,000 · OtherSherman Lake Y CampCALHOUN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT — $50,000 · OtherCALHOUN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTBig Brothers Big Sisters — $37,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big SistersVoices — $30,000 · OtherVoicesSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK — $22,500 · OtherUnited Way of the Battle Creek and K — $22,000 · Other+23 more — $145,460 · Other+23 moreSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $100,000 · Human ServicesSherman Lake YMCA O…CHARITABLE UNION — $47,500 · Human ServicesCHARITABLE UNIONSouthwestern Michigan Urban League — $15,150 · Human ServicesSouthwestern Michig…VOCES — $15,150 · Human ServicesVOCESDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesMUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI — $72,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CENTER OF…Brass Band of Battle Creek — $60,500 · Arts & CultureBrass Band of B…FRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE …Bronson Health Foundation — $53,333 · HealthRISE CORP — $26,000 · HealthKALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY UNLIMITED INC — $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentOLIVET COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationKELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,500 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $5,000 · EducationCARING HEARTS AND HANDS OF HOPE INC — $4,750 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $22,000 · PhilanthropyBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$556,960Human Services$191,300Arts & Culture$157,500Health$79,333Youth Development$66,000Education$55,250Philanthropy$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI — $72,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBrass Band of Battle Creek — $60,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBronson Health Foundation — $53,333 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHARITABLE UNION — $47,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRISE CORP — $26,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE — $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetOLIVET COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY UNLIMITED INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSouthwestern Michigan Urban League — $15,150 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVOCES — $15,150 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAnchoRRa — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEversight — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEILA ARBORETUM SOCIETY INC — $6,550 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARING HEARTS AND HANDS OF HOPE INC — $4,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDROP-IN SELF HELP CENTER INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $500 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.

Battle Creek Communit…WK Kellogg FoundationUnited Way of South C…Miller FoundationKalamazoo Community F…Feldpausch FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…Harold and Grace Upjo…Santo Maria Frank & J…Duncan Family TrustIrving S Gilmore Foun…Comerica Charitable F…
Battle Creek Community FoundationMI48.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Miller Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Comerica Charitable 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda 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 49 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $898k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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