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H P & Genevieve Connable Fund at a glance

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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.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$378kEducation$343kArts & Culture$251kHousing & Shelter$107kYouth Development$107kHealth$96kEnvironment$63kRecreation & Sports$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION$5,000
GRYPHON PLACE$5,000
KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN$5,000
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$5,000
WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$5,000
MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES$4,000
YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $11k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $11k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $11k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $11k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $11k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $11k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $8k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $4k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $3k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $3k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $3k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 46 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -74% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-74%

Still filing today

78%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +41%
  • KV
    KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +250%
  • KS
    KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF KALAMAZOO
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • WH
    WMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • HH
    HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF KALAMAZOO INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

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

Animals
2
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
3
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
4
Kalamazoo Cultural Center

Support of the arts council of greater kalamazoo

Arts & Culture
5
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
6
Kalamazoo Country Day School

An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.

Education
7
Heritage Community of Kalamazoo

We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community

Human Services
8
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
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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11
Kalamazoo Community Foundation

Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

Philanthropy
12
Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation Development Foundation

Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA OF KALAMAZOO: $89,500 · OtherYWCA OF KALAMAZOOYMCA OF KALAMAZOO: $62,500 · OtherYMCA OF KALAMAZOOMILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES: $52,000 · OtherMILESTONE SENIOR SERVICESPARKS FOUNDATION OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $29,000 · OtherRESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INCORPORATED: $27,000 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES INC: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $23,500 · OtherKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $27,000 · Other+28 more: $308,500 · Other+28 moreKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $204,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLLEGEKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $84,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNI…KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL: $19,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNC…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SY…ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $43,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL…FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS: $24,000 · Arts & CultureFONTANA CHAM…Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: $24,000 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo In…IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $15,000 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GIL…PARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $94,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & C…SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $27,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERD'S…DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $16,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY…FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $6,500 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRAUMA RECOVERY ASSOCIATES: $27,000 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE: $18,000 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC: $11,000 · HealthBronson Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC: $41,000 · EnvironmentKalamazoo Nature Center: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · Environment
Other$674,000Education$325,000Arts & Culture$163,500Human Services$143,500Youth Development$77,500Health$66,000Environment$63,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $204,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $94,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $43,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC: $41,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $27,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetTRAUMA RECOVERY ASSOCIATES: $27,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $27,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFONTANA CHAMBER ARTS: $24,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO: $19,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL: $19,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $16,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO JUNIOR SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $16,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetKalamazoo Choral Arts Inc: $16,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO CONCERT BAND: $15,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAN-DO KALAMAZOO: $9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKALAMAZOO SINGERS: $7,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $6,500 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStewards of Kleinstuck: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Harold and Grace Upjo…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…Tyler-Little Family F…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…United Way of South C…Preston S and Barbara…John E Fetzer Institu…The Ronda E Stryker a…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI84.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization H P & Genevieve Connable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H P & Genevieve Connable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    20report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to H P & Genevieve Connable Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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