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KALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
To ensure that all kalamazoo county youth have access to high quality, you-drive, diverse, inclusive, and equitable out-of-school time programs that will help prepare them to be college or career ready by early adulthood.
$682k
Granted FY2024
17
Grants
1
Communities
$140k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER$140,000
- COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS$60,000
- SPEAK IT FORWARD$55,000
- EL CONCILIO$55,000
- INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP$50,000
- HOLY TEMPLE CHURCH$43,134
- BENT NOT BROKEN$40,000
- STEPS TO VICTORY$35,000
- HELEN L FOX MUSIC CENTER$30,000
- EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$30,000
- NEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP$22,200
- CONFIDENT SOLE$21,366
- FIRE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ARTS$20,000
- 9TH CIRCUIT COURT$20,000
- OPEN ROADS BIKE PROGRAM$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Vocal Justice
We position youth who are proximate to injustice as leaders for social change. We cultivate learning conditions for youth that strengthen their community, critical consciousness, and communication skills. Our work positions youth to share…
Education
2
Center for Creative Education Inc
The center for creative education promotes the social and cultural awareness of youth and community througharts wellness and education. the mission is acheived through programs teaching dance, performance arts creativityand mentorship…
Education
3
Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc
Founded in 2016, Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (LNA) is a Community I.M.P.A.C.T. (Individuals Making Progress and Change Together) Organization. Our mission is to Engage the residents of Lakeview, Educate them on opportunities and connect…
Community Improvement
4
Creative Youth Productions Inc
Creative Youth Productions Inc (CYP) mission is to develop youth leaders through the performing arts. CYP is committed to using the youth's voice organizationally, programmatically and creatively. CYP's goal is to acquire leadership,…
Youth Development
5
Statement Arts Inc
Statement Arts believe in the power of an integrated arts education to cultivate the next generation of leaders who can inspire social and cultural change. Our holistic approach supports young people and offers the space for them to find…
Arts & Culture
6
African Cultural Services Inc
The mission of African Cultural Services Inc is to use a holistic approach to lift African immigrant youth and their families to succeed in life through provision of a safe space, educational and mental health support, visual and…
International
7
Intentional Learning for the Youth
Sharing information to equip communities
Education
8
The Empowerment Center Inc
The theme and focus of the academy is literacy through the arts. the curriculum is designed to develop character and meet the academic and cultural needs for the students of the 21st century
Education
9
Expression Educational and Cultural Center
Provide Education and resources for children in th
Human Services
10
East Oakland Development Center
Promote the cultural welfare of the youth and young adults in east oakland
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Heritage Multicultural Youth
Providing programs/serv for you
Human Services
12
Spark Youth
Spark youth is an on-campus afterschool program focused on helping students with academic achievement, providing enrichment activities and building character/social development.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is Gottagetit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$255,334Arts & Culture$240,000Human Services$56,366Crime & Legal$40,000Community Improvement$30,000Youth Development$20,000Education$20,000Recreation & Sports$20,000
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 ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SPEAK IT FORWARD ↗
- Who funds EL CONCILIO ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds BENT NOT BROKEN ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO VICTORY ↗
- Who funds HELEN L FOX MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENT SOLE ↗
- Who funds OPEN ROADS BIKE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds GOTTAGETIT ↗
- Who funds FIRE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ARTS ↗
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.
The Ronda E Stryker and William DMI29× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Ronda E Stryker and William D · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Enna Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 organisation KALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HELEN L FOX MUSIC CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 461273031 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HELEN L FOX MUSIC CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Kalamazoo Youth Development Network?
Find your warmest path to Kalamazoo Youth Development Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines