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Irving S Gilmore Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
205
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$34MHuman Services$16MEducation$12MCommunity Improvement$9.6MHealth$7.8MYouth Development$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 205 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k56 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k80 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k56 grants · $5.5M
  • $250k+13 grants · $8.0M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$367M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,300,000
IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FESTIVAL$1,000,000
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER$775,000
KALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY$670,000
SENIOR SERVICES INC$549,000
IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FESTIVAL$543,584
BUREAU OF SERVICES FOR BLIND PERSONS$500,000
KALAMAZOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$450,000
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORPORATION$350,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$300,000
HOUSING RESOURCES INC$300,000
CAN-DO KITCHEN$250,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$226,000
KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$200,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $30k → 21%MICHIGAN STATE TROOPERS ASSISTANCE FUND: $624 → 16%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $30k → 21%LIFECARE INC: $1k → 12%LIFECARE INC: $1k → 12%ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES THE: $35k → 12%ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES THE: $25k → 12%ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES THE: $10k → 12%ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES THE: $10k → 12%KALAMAZOO BLACK MALE ALLIANCE: $6k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $25k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $20k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $20k → 12%LIFT FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $775k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $100k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $100k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 12%ASK FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $40k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $40k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $40k → 12%KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $25k → 12%SYNERGY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 12%KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $25k → 12%ASK FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 12%SYNERGY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 12%SYNERGY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 12%FRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $5k → 12%SYNERGY HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 12%FRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $5k → 12%FRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $200k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $61k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $35k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $35k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $30k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 12%PINE LAKE FUND: $25k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $10k → 12%CONFIDENT SOLE: $8k → 12%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $8k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $100k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$83M · 131 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

131 repeat relationships — 117 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
39

Total granted

$83M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +99% · 28% of their budget
  • KV
    KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +229% · 89% of their budget
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue -15%
  • KN
    Kalamazoo Nature Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $335k · revenue +148%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program

Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility

Crime & Legal
3
Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association

To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…

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4
Kalamazoo Country Day School

An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.

Education
5
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
6
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
7
Kalamazoo Area Christian Retir Asso

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.

Human Services
8
Heritage Community of Kalamazoo

We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community

Human Services
9
Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation Development Foundation

Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.

Recreation & Sports
10
South County Community Services

South county community services (sccs) is the only human service agency dedicated to serving the 25,000 residents who live in the southern tier of kalamazoo county. with a mission to work with families to improve quality of life, the…

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11
Kalispell Area Chamber of Commerce

Economic and community development

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12
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr19%30%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr19%46%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/166
the rest of the field
10%
112/1,133

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.

04the grantee network

142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 189 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/142
Grantees still filing
79/142
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $43,454,785 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY — $2,729,000 · Other+101 more — $16,567,243 · Other+101 moreIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $3,807,379 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GIL…ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $1,996,313 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL…KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $857,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SY…PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK — $543,500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA…KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER — $339,640 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $325,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $1,745,215 · Arts & Culture+21 moreKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $3,035,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,975,610 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $400,000 · Education+7 more — $481,000 · EducationECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $995,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $200,800 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $200,000 · Human ServicesKAIROS DWELLING — $175,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $136,000 · Human ServicesAACORN FARM INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE SYNERGY HEALTH CENTER INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES — $80,000 · Human Services+15 more — $365,624 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP — $1,050,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $340,000 · Community ImprovementKALAMAZOO CENTER FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY — $330,000 · Community ImprovementKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION — $150,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO — $85,000 · Community Improvement+4 more — $99,000 · Community ImprovementDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $667,100 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE — $600,000 · HealthFamily Health Center Inc — $305,000 · HealthBronson Health Foundation — $150,250 · HealthSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $75,000 · Health+6 more — $220,700 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $725,000 · Youth DevelopmentKALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — $460,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN ROADS BIKE PROGRAM — $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN — $109,600 · Youth Development+2 more — $80,000 · Youth Development
Other$62,751,028Arts & Culture$9,614,047Education$6,891,610Human Services$2,332,424Community Improvement$2,054,000Health$2,018,050Youth Development$1,644,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $3,807,379 over 3y, 28% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $3,035,000 over 2y, 89% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,975,610 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $1,996,313 over 3y, 51% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $1,082,300 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP — $1,050,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $995,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $857,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $725,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $705,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $667,100 over 2y, 47% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $641,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI — $640,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE — $600,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK — $543,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $525,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $500,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — $460,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC — $450,300 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $447,350 over 3y, 16% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAN-DO KALAMAZOO — $364,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $362,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Alliance Inc — $350,120 over 3y, 20% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $340,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER — $339,640 over 3y, 37% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center — $335,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetKALAMAZOO CENTER FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY — $330,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $325,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGLASS ART KALAMAZOO — $308,865 over 3y, 26% of budgetFamily Health Center Inc — $305,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO — $300,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFONTANA CHAMBER ARTS — $295,600 over 3y, 28% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $294,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $272,060 over 3y, 10% of budgetOPEN ROADS BIKE PROGRAM — $270,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN — $255,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCRESCENDO ACADEMY OF MUSIC — $205,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $200,800 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $200,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM — $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers — $195,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetKALAMAZOO CONCERT BAND — $184,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetKALAMAZOO EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CENTER — $182,350 over 3y, 25% of budgetKAIROS DWELLING — $175,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL — $163,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBronson Health Foundation — $150,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $150,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Harold and Grace Upjo…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…The Ronda E Stryker a…Tyler-Little Family F…John E Fetzer Institu…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…United Way of South C…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…Jim Gilmore Jr Founda…Enna Foundation
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI228.5× affinity121 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 · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · Enna 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 Irving S Gilmore 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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