· Private foundation
H P & Genevieve Connable Fund
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES | $15,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC | $11,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $5,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
| GRYPHON PLACE | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +17% since the first grant, against -74% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +41%
- KVKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +250%
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- COCITY OF KALAMAZOOone grant, 2018 · $15k
- WHWMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HHHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF KALAMAZOO INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
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…
To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions
Support of the arts council of greater kalamazoo
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community
Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.
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.
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…
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Trauma Recovery Associates. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
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 61 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 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds TRAUMA RECOVERY ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO JUNIOR SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Choral Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CONCERT BAND ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP ↗
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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston 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 H P & Genevieve Connable Fund 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.
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