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Hammond Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEV CTR | $5,000 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| MERZETATE EXPLORERS | $3,000 |
| KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION | $3,000 |
| LAKE LOUISE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
| GRYPHON PLACE | $2,500 |
| CITY CHURCH OF KALAMAZOO | $2,000 |
| HEALTHY HOUSE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| KALAMAZOO YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $2,000 |
| CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $1,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| TREE OF LIFE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ASSOC COMM DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
52 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MWMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +580%
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +41%
HEALTHY HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +682%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- ISIRVING S GILMORE INTERNTL KEYBOARDone grant, 2023 · $5k
IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +90%
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.
To operate and manage according to law and applicable regulations, a certified home for the ages for qualified residents of Kalamazoo county and its surrounding counties.
Support of the arts council of greater kalamazoo
To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions
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…
Provide housing and services to low income senior adults
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in 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…
Reclaiming the village through cultural liberation by holding spaces for internal transformation, healing arts and birthing justice.
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.
Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is Healthy House. 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 46 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 80 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 MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds SILENT OBSERVER OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOMES OF KALAMAZOO A NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds EDEN SPRINGS PARK PRESERVATIONISTS ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds LAKE LOUISE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
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 · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · 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 Hammond 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.
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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