· Private foundation
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 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.
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 |
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGA | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGA | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS | $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 |
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, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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,…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 56 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Havirmill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Havirmill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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