· Private foundation
Hammond Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEV CTR | $5,000 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION | $3,000 |
| MERZETATE EXPLORERS | $3,000 |
| LAKE LOUISE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
| GRYPHON PLACE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| KALAMAZOO YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $2,000 |
| CITY CHURCH OF KALAMAZOO | $2,000 |
| HEALTHY HOUSE | $2,000 |
| CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| INTERFAITH HOMES OF KALAMAZOO INC | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $1,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ASSOC COMM DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MWMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +980%
- 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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hammond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hammond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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