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Huff Family Liquidating Foundation

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.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$70kHealth$32kEducation$32kCommunity Improvement$14kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$4kAnimals$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $87k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WMU FOUNDATION ADULT WELLNESS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE$11,500
WMU FOUNDATION$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE KALAMAZOO$10,000
KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
IS GILMORE INT'L KEYBOARD FESTIVAL$10,000
KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE$5,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$5,000
CENTRICA ROSE ARBOR$5,000
WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$4,500
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST$3,500
ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION$2,500
THE PARK CLUB FOUNDATION$1,000
STULBERG INTL STRING COMPETITION$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%KALAMAZOO DOWNTOWN MALL: $15k → 12%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $500 → 21%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $12k → 12%KZOO SPARTANS: $500 → 16%LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORP: $10k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE KALAMAZOO: $10k → 12%KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 12%IS GILMORE INT'L KEYBOARD FESTIVAL: $10k → 12%KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 12%IS GILMORE INT'L KEYBOARD FESTIVAL: $5k → 12%KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE: $5k → 12%WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5k → 12%SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST: $4k → 12%KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE: $3k → 12%KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $3k → 12%KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2k → 12%IS GILMORE INT'L KEYBOARD FESTIVAL: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 12%IS GILMORE INT'L KEYBOARD FESTIVAL: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO INSITUTE OF ARTS: $1k → 12%YWCA: $1k → 12%MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY: $1k → 12%FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $1k → 12%UNITED WAY OF GREATER BC & KZOO: $1k → 12%STULBERG INTL STRING COMPETITION: $1k → 12%KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1k → 12%STULBERG INTL STRING COMPETITION: $500 → 12%ST AUGUSTINE CATHEDRAL: $500 → 12%ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION OF ST JOSEPH: $500 → 12%KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES: $1k → 12%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SW MI: $1k → 12%SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY: $500 → 12%SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY: $500 → 12%CENTRICA ROSE ARBOR: $5k → 12%THE PARK CLUB FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 12%THE PARK CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%WMU FOUNDATION ADULT WELLNESS: $20k → 12%WMU FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%WMU FOUNDATION: $500 → 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 11 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +72% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$87k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+72%

Still filing today

64%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • KS
    KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +42%
  • IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD
    4× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +191%
  • FA
    FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +135%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +134%
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 College

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…

Education
2
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

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

Animals
3
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
4
Land Conservancy of West 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…

Environment
5
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
6
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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7
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
8
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
9
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
10
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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11
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
12
West Michigan Horticultural Society Inc Dba Frederik Meijer Gardens

To promote the enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of gardens, sculpture, the natural environment and the arts. the most significant activity is to allow guests to experience horticulture and the arts.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra; the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity. 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

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WMU FOUNDATION ADULT WELLNESS: $20,000 · OtherWMU FOUNDATION ADULT WELLNESSIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE KALAMAZOO: $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE KALAMAZOOMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $8,000 · OtherKalamazoo Civic TheatreALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONCENTRICA ROSE ARBOR: $5,000 · OtherCENTRICA ROSE ARBORTHE PARK CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Other+10 more: $9,600 · Other+10 moreKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $21,500 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $18,500 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOA…FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $12,500 · Arts & CultureFARMERS ALLEY THEATREKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $8,000 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo Institute of ArtsWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationWESTERN M…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $4,500 · EducationWESTERN M…+1 more: $500 · EducationLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP: $3,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $100 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $2,000 · AnimalsMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$86,100Arts & Culture$60,500Education$15,500Community Improvement$13,600Animals$2,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Environment$1,000Housing & Shelter$250

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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $21,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $18,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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…Tyler-Little Family F…John E Fetzer Institu…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…Peregrine-Huff Founda…H P & Genevieve Conna…Preston S and Barbara…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Irving S Gilmore Foun…WK Kellogg Foundation
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI32.3× affinity13 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 · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Peregrine-Huff Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 Huff Family Liquidating Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Huff Family Liquidating Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Huff Family Liquidating Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Huff Family Liquidating Foundation 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 33 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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