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Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation at a glance

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Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$499k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$53k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$662kCommunity Improvement$566kReligion$349kArts & Culture$342kEducation$287kHuman Services$263kCrime & Legal$250kYouth Development$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$20,000
GRYPHON PLACE$20,000
SPECIAL DAYS CAMPS$18,000
FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE$17,000
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GRTR KALAMAZOO$16,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$15,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE$15,000
KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER$15,000
VFW POST 827$15,000
LENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN$15,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 14%DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SERVICES: $10k → 11%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 14%DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SERVICES: $4k → 11%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $4k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $4k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $4k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $3k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $20k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $20k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $20k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $2k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SW MICHIGAN: $200 → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $10k → 12%FRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $7k → 12%FRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CO
KY
MD
DC
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 69 repeat orgs$811k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
63

Total granted

$2.6M
$718k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+15%

Still filing today

61%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • KN
    Kalamazoo Nature Center
    3× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +21%
  • AB
    ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +11%
  • KL
    KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +4%
  • DT
    DOWNTOWN TOMORROW INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -76% · 63% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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 Book Arts Center

To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions

Arts & Culture
2
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
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
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
5
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program

Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility

Crime & Legal
6
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
7
Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation Development Foundation

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

Recreation & Sports
8
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
9
Housing Resources Inc

To assure housing for socially and economically vulnerable residents of kalamazoo county.

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10
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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11
Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 149 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/86
Grantees still filing
55/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $222,074 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERSFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $125,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHSpecial Days Camps: $118,000 · OtherSpecial Days CampsCATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GRTR KALAMAZOO: $109,500 · OtherCENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE: $97,000 · OtherASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $73,000 · OtherVIBRANT KALAMAZOO: $90,000 · Other+97 more: $1,229,262 · Other+97 moreDOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO INC: $346,520 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN KALAMAZO…KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $90,000 · Community ImprovementKALAMAZOO NONPROF…DOWNTOWN TOMORROW INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN TOMORROW…KALAMAZOO IN BLOOM INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementKALAMAZOO IN BLOO…+3 more: $8,000 · Community ImprovementKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER: $122,500 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $17,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $16,000 · Arts & CultureWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureBronson Health Foundation: $94,000 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC: $47,500 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $30,000 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE: $23,300 · HealthLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $18,000 · HealthALANO CLUB OF KALAMAZOO INC: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $17,500 · HealthKALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC: $85,000 · Crime & LegalCALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN: $37,500 · Crime & LegalFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Crime & LegalHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $60,000 · Human ServicesSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17,500 · Human ServicesSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $15,025 · Human ServicesDEAF INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $9,917 · Human ServicesTHE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $9,500 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE: $7,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,200 · Human ServicesKalamazoo Nature Center: $75,000 · EnvironmentHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $41,000 · EnvironmentStewards of Kleinstuck: $10,000 · Environment+3 more: $8,000 · Environment
Other$2,063,836Community Improvement$529,520Arts & Culture$253,000Health$240,300Crime & Legal$137,500Human Services$135,142Environment$134,000

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 budgetDOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO INC: $346,520 over 5y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $222,074 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER: $122,500 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetSpecial Days Camps: $118,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $94,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $90,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetVIBRANT KALAMAZOO: $90,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY DEFENDER INC: $85,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $62,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN TOMORROW INC: $50,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC: $47,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $41,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN: $37,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKALAMAZOO IN BLOOM INC: $35,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetLAKESIDE FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMRC Industries Inc: $24,815 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRESCENDO ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $24,529 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE: $23,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUrban Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCAN-DO KALAMAZOO: $20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetINTERACT OF MICHIGAN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $18,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $17,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $16,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $15,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTKALAMAZOO AREA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDEAF INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINTERFAITH HOMES OF KALAMAZOO A NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $13,755 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStewards of Kleinstuck: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALANO CLUB OF KALAMAZOO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES: $9,917 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $9,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

  • 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 KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds VIBRANT KALAMAZOO ↗
  • 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 PARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds CRESCENDO ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗

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…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Harold and Grace Upjo…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Tyler-Little Family F…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…John E Fetzer Institu…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…United Way of South C…The Ronda E Stryker a…WK Kellogg Foundation
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI103× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Jim Gilmore Jr 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 149 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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