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Krw Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT | $500,000 |
| OUR HOPE | $300,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| THE DIATRIBE | $150,000 |
| MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS | $150,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS | $100,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE | $90,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE | $75,000 |
| HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY | $70,000 |
| YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN | $65,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| FIRST STEPS OF KENT COUNTY | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $693k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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
- DADISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- TDTHE DIATRIBE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +134%
- ALAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago3× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SASTUDENT ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $250k
- CACHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $250k
- TMTHE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +302%
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.
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
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
Changing lives through the power of work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Grand Rapids Community College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 79 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 GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DIATRIBE INC ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DISART ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Health Net of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds INDIAN TRAILS CAMP ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 26 INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds The Refugee Education Center ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
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 Wege Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Cdv5 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 Krw 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.
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% 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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