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Havirmill Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA OF KALAMAZOO | $161,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGA | $20,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGA | $15,000 |
| KVCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWE | $7,500 |
| SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORPORATIO | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE7× · 2017–2023 · $260k · revenue +45%
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +13%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC4× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
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 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…
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.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The kalamazoo literacy council (klc) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization committed to enhancing the lives of adults by improving their reading, writing, spelling and comprehension skills. the klc was founded in 1974 and is the only…
Michigan Colleges Alliance is a collective of excellent independent colleges and universities located throughout Michigan. MCA helps students pursue their educational goals by organizing on campus tours, funding scholarships and connecting…
The msu chm upper peninsula education corporation is a collaborative medical education corporation funded by the michigan state university college of human medicine and up health system marquette, dedicated to the medical education of…
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…
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…
Creating healthy communities - together
Our mission is to support the city of kalamazoos recreational programs and help improve its parks. we envision better quality of life for the residents of kalamazoo through recreation. we grant scholarships to at-risk youth to support…
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
Glass art kalamazoo is a glass arts organization dedicated to teaching, creating, and promoting glass art. its mission is to enrich the community through exceptional glass art experiences. glass art kalamazoo currently offers classes,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sister Celeste Derr Foundation. 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 44 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.
21 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. 21 of the 56 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 Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Sister Celeste Derr Foundation ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PORTAGE SENIOR CENTER ↗
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 · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Preston S and Barbara J Parish 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 Havirmill 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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