· Private foundation
Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION | $53,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTER | $29,239 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| GRYPHON PLACE | $20,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL DAYS CAMPS | $18,000 |
| FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE | $17,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GRTR KALAMAZOO | $16,000 |
| VFW POST 827 | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| LENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- KNKalamazoo Nature Center3× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +21%
- ABASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +11%
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC3× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- KCKALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INCone grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +4%
- DTDOWNTOWN TOMORROW INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -76% · 63% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions
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…
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…
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.
Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
To assure housing for socially and economically vulnerable residents of kalamazoo county.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
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.
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 149 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 DOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Special Days Camps ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO IN BLOOM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv ↗
- Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds CRESCENDO ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
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 · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 Jim Gilmore Jr 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.
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% 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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