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Kalamazoo Community Foundation

KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
282
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$35MHuman Services$27MArts & Culture$19MHealth$12MYouth Development$9.9MPhilanthropy$8.1MCommunity Improvement$6.6MHousing & Shelter$6.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 282 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 282 grants below total $21,437,066 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,386,647 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,949,581 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $233k
  • $10k–50k133 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k101 grants · $11M
  • $250k+15 grants · $7.3M
$31,900
Median grant
14
States reached
$699M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA OF KALAMAZOO$1,275,426
KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE$782,459
KALAMAZOO AREA MATH & SCIENCE CENTER$736,059
TIDES CENTER$597,333
PRETTY LAKE CAMP$506,502
KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS$451,839
MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT (MICHIGAN UNITED)$400,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$375,000
KALAMAZOO PUBLIC LIBRARY$371,386
KALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE AGENCY$360,172
FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$322,500
MICHIGAN DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY$300,000
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$285,252
GILMORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL$257,107
FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$252,965
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 (FY17–24, $17.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.8M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $597k → 10%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE: $273k → 12%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE: $205k → 12%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE: $185k → 12%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE: $115k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $184k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $641k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $401k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $374k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $353k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $298k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $262k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $237k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $219k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $206k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $133k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $113k → 12%MOTHERS OF HOPE: $101k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SW MI: $616k → 12%RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $435k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $253k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $243k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $237k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $222k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $190k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $176k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $174k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $167k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $167k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $160k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $151k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $142k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $124k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $108k → 12%RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $107k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $104k → 12%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $101k → 12%AACORN: $216k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $160k → 12%AACORN: $140k → 12%KALAMAZOO REFUGEE RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INC: $118k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $153k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $148k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $147k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $131k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $126k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $109k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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GA
FL

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$141M · 317 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

317 repeat relationships — 221 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

317
114

Total granted

$141M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +192%
  • KC
    Kalamazoo Civic Theatre
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +13% · 37% of their budget
  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • SUMMITS EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $94k · revenue +405%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $83k · revenue -7%

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 Community Foundation

Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

Philanthropy
3
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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4
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
5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
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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7
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
8
The Center for Michigan

For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…

Public Benefit
9
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
10
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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11
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
12
Michigan Colleges Alliance

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Douglass Community Association 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr13%38%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%9/504
the rest of the field
13%
6,136/47,399

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

383 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. 383 of the 505 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.

68
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
119
Early backer (in before they grew)
367/383
Grantees still filing
247/383
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI — $7,420,904 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MIKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY — $5,613,168 · OtherKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCYKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $5,610,531 · OtherKalamazoo Civic TheatreKALAMAZOO AREA MATH & SCIENCE CENTER — $5,176,931 · OtherKALAMAZOO AREA MATH & SCIENCE CENTERSENIOR SERVICES INC — $3,459,114 · Other+105 more — $57,715,292 · Other+105 moreKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $2,784,793 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO COU…TIDES CENTER — $2,366,333 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $1,583,241 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHIL…DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $1,069,088 · Human ServicesDISABILITY NE…THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES — $1,037,908 · Human ServicesTHE ARC COMMU…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO — $985,721 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CH…LIFECARE INC — $941,579 · Human ServicesLIFECARE INCRESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC — $936,350 · Human ServicesRESIDENTIAL O…AACORN FARM INC — $784,341 · Human ServicesECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC — $700,122 · Human Services+16 more — $3,712,314 · Human Services+16 moreKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $3,135,175 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,356,317 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $1,395,670 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $939,136 · Arts & CultureROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER — $662,860 · Arts & CultureGLASS ART KALAMAZOO — $500,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK — $478,703 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY — $444,150 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $977,672 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $1,880,172 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,767,610 · EducationKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION — $1,069,603 · EducationKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL — $991,814 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $774,084 · EducationREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO — $418,837 · EducationVICKSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $366,969 · Education+17 more — $2,791,895 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $3,834,346 · PhilanthropySOUTH HAVEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,642,992 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT — $713,819 · PhilanthropyUrban Alliance Inc — $469,950 · Philanthropy+5 more — $767,823 · PhilanthropyDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $1,257,747 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $909,489 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $879,338 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE — $681,736 · HealthBronson Health Foundation — $660,781 · HealthSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $503,662 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC — $417,973 · HealthFamily Health Center Inc — $387,409 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $255,369 · Health+5 more — $629,837 · HealthPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC — $3,459,223 · Recreation & SportsKALAMAZOO FRIENDS OF RECREATION — $555,700 · Recreation & SportsOpportunities Unlimited for the Blind Inc — $480,000 · Recreation & SportsRICHLAND AREA COMMUNITY CENTER — $259,978 · Recreation & Sports
Other$84,995,940Human Services$16,901,790Arts & Culture$10,889,683Education$10,060,984Philanthropy$8,428,930Health$6,583,341Recreation & Sports$4,754,901

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI — $7,420,904 over 8y, 20% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $5,610,531 over 8y, 37% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $3,834,346 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC — $3,459,223 over 8y, 40% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $3,459,114 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $3,135,175 over 8y, 16% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $2,784,793 over 8y, 54% of budgetSOUTH HAVEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,642,992 over 6y, 81% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $2,481,845 over 8y, 12% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $2,366,333 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,356,317 over 8y, 20% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center — $2,159,299 over 8y, 12% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $1,880,172 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,767,610 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $1,698,768 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO — $1,625,190 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $1,583,241 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $1,581,259 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO GAY & LESBIAN RESOURCE CENTER — $1,418,304 over 8y, 58% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $1,395,670 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetSTARA COLLABORATIVE — $1,377,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetRURAL FUTURES INTERNATIONAL — $1,321,530 over 8y, 42% of budgetOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO — $1,311,577 over 8y, 22% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $1,299,450 over 7y, 42% of budgetKALAMAZOO CENTER FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY — $1,277,150 over 8y, 68% of budgetDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $1,257,747 over 8y, 56% of budgetKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION — $1,069,603 over 6y, 86% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $1,069,088 over 8y, 22% of budgetTHE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES — $1,037,908 over 8y, 66% of budgetGENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN — $1,005,500 over 2y, 29% of budgetKALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — $996,350 over 6y, 41% of budgetKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL — $991,814 over 8y, 81% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO — $985,721 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $974,566 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetLIFECARE INC — $941,579 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $939,136 over 8y, 11% of budgetRESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC — $936,350 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $935,224 over 8y, 54% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program — $927,250 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $909,489 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $879,338 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetVINE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $870,000 over 6y, 70% of budgetNORTHSIDE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $854,178 over 8y, 35% of budgetINTERFAITH STRATEGY FOR ADVOCACY AND ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY — $817,700 over 8y, 75% of budgetAACORN FARM INC — $784,341 over 8y, 62% of budgetKalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv — $781,850 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $774,084 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN — $745,579 over 8y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH HAVEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO GAY & LESBIAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
  • Who funds STARA COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds RURAL FUTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO CENTER FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds DOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds GENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK ↗

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.

Harold and Grace Upjo…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…The Ronda E Stryker a…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…United Way of South C…Tyler-Little Family F…John E Fetzer Institu…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…Jim Gilmore Jr Founda…H P & Genevieve Conna…
Harold and Grace Upjohn FoundationMI232.6× affinity122 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund

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 Kalamazoo Community 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 505 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home