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Keeler Foundation at a glance

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Keeler Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$21kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$10kEnvironment$10kHuman Services$4kReligion$4kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXODUS PLACE$10,000
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$7,500
MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION$1,452
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 15% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $822 → 17%LAKESHORE ASSISTED LIVING: $100 → 8%PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%ST MARY'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 19%ETERNAL WORLD TELEVISION NETWORK: $3k → 16%ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $8k → 17%FRANCISCAN LIFE PROCESS CENTER: $500 → 11%EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $300 → 11%FRIENDS OF EAST GRAND RAPIDS LIBRARY: $100 → 11%FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS & SCULPTURE PARK: $10k → 11%AQUINAS COLLEGE: $100 → 11%GRAND RAPIDS HOME FOR VETERANS: $500 → 11%SAN JUAN DIEGO ACADEMY: $1k → 11%KENT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%EMMANUAL HOSPICE: $2k → 11%EXODUS PLACE: $10k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY: $10k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTER: $1k → 11%VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $1k → 11%OUR HOPE: $500 → 11%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $330 → 11%ST CECILIA MUSIC SOCIETY: $200 → 11%MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $100 → 11%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.
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 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.

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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
2
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
6
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
7
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
8
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
10
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
11
United Way for Southeastern Michigan

To mobilize the caring power of detroit and southeastern michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
The James a Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the james a. eddy memorial geriatric center (eddy memorial…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of West Michigan United Way; the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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

19 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. 19 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EXODUS PLACE: $10,000 · OtherEXODUS PLACEGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY: $10,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYPORTER HILLS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherPORTER HILLS FOUNDATIONMARY FREE BED FOUNDATION: $1,452 · OtherCATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTER: $1,000 · OtherSAN JUAN DIEGO ACADEMY: $1,000 · Other+12 more: $3,630 · Other+12 moreGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUND…HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITE…VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS A…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $822 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM…+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS: $10,000 · EnvironmentWEST MICHIGAN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…EMMANUEL HOSPICE: $2,000 · HealthEMMANUEL HOS…ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $3,000 · ReligionSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$29,082Philanthropy$21,000Arts & Culture$11,022Environment$10,000Health$9,500Religion$3,000Recreation & Sports$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTER HILLS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMMANUEL HOSPICE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $822 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $330 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAquinas College: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…The Korff FoundationPeter C & Emajean Coo…Frey FoundationThe Community Foundat…Wolverine World Wide …The Meijer FoundationThe Wege FoundationGrand Haven Area Comm…Ge Aerospace Foundati…THE PETER and JOAN SE…Raymond James Charita…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Keeler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Keeler 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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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