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Keller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE | $62,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| CLARK FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $16,000 |
| BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER | $15,200 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY - MLK | $15,000 |
| BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| OUR KITCHEN TABLE | $15,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK | $15,000 |
| STEM GREENHOUSE | $15,000 |
| WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS | $12,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUN | $10,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JBJOHN BALL ZOO3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +55%
- SGSTEM GREENHOUSE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +44%
- KSKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CRCLARK RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue 0%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDone grant, 2023 · $19k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Great river children's museum (grcm) shines a bright light on the power of play to spark children's learning, strengthen families, and build community connections. its dynamic, interactive environments and experiences are a gateway to the…
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Our mission is to continuously expand the potential of children, the experiences of educators and the involvement of parents within the diverse community of grand rapids, mi
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
We bring people together to build community as an inclusive, independent, community-supported nonprofit organization.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…
Changing lives through the power of work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and the most unlike its peers is Senior Sing Along. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 64 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 UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds STEM GREENHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT PARK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds Literacy Center of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds OUR KITCHEN TABLE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MONEY FINANCES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Steelcase Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation
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 Keller 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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