· Public charity
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 prepare them to be college or career ready by early adulthood.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GOTTAGETIT | $20,000 |
| READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO | $20,000 |
| FIRE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ARTS | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
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.
The diatribe uses restorative art to disrupt historical systems of oppression by reimagining education, holistically honoring the community by creating an unapologetic vision for liberation that is accessible to all.
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…
We collaborate with youth of color in their learning and development journey providing experiences and resources for critical thinking, exploring voice, deepening brilliance, and contributing to the health and renewal of their…
Provide Education and resources for children in th
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…
To provide high quality, affordable counseling and educational services toall members of the community. we strive to encourage positive change andpersonal growth that will brace and sustain the hearts and livesof individuals, couples,…
To provide culturally responsive, child-focused programs that support the growth, learning, and well-being of children and families. To strengthen community-based systems by empowering providers to deliver equitable........
The mission of sole effects is to empower youth to become confident purpose-driven leaders.
To arm young voices with the power of pen and prose, reinforcing teamwork, accountability, and responsibility, igniting social change on the page and stage.
The Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective creates a safe space for immigrant youth to express themselves and achieve their full potential and their identity that intersects with being undocumented. Through grassroots organizing, our…
Providing out of school time activities for teenagers experiencing poverty but addressing food insecurity academic acceleration and other wrap around services needed for safety and security.
Royal Youth Dance Ensemble Incorporated is a community based dance program offering dance lessons for children ages 3 to 20 years old
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is The Institute of Public Scholarship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SPEAK IT FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Institute of Public Scholarship ↗
- Who funds BENT NOT BROKEN BY H5 ↗
- Who funds Steps to Victory Inc ↗
- Who funds EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENT SOLE ↗
- Who funds READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds OPEN ROADS BIKE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GOTTAGETIT ↗
- Who funds Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative ↗
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 · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · Enna Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · 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 organization 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.
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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