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Krw Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.2MEducation$6.3MCivil Rights$2.5MHealth$2.5MHuman Services$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.3MHousing & Shelter$615kReligion$515kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT$500,000
OUR HOPE$300,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$250,000
THE DIATRIBE$150,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS$150,000
MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION$150,000
YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS$100,000
UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE$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
C-SNIP$50,000
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN PROTECTION & ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $100k → 11%CAMP SUNSHINE: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF KENT COUNTY: $38k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF KENT COUNTY: $20k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF KENT COUNTY: $20k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF KENT COUNTY: $10k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF KENT COUNTY: $10k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF KENT COUNTY: $10k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $100k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $65k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $50k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $50k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $25k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $20k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $10k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $10k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 51 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
22

Total granted

$23M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+44%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DA
    DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
  • TD
    THE DIATRIBE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +134%
  • AL
    Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
    3× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +302%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • SA
    STUDENT ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Grand Rapids Early Discovery Center

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

Human Services
2
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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4
Community Education Commission

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.

Education
5
Family Outreach Center

Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.

—
6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—
7
Land Conservancy of West 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…

Environment
8
African Resource Center of West Michigan

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.

Human Services
9
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
10
Michigan Advocacy Program

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Traverse City Center of Entrepreneurship

To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.

—
12
Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan's Heartland Inc

Changing lives through the power of work.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 79 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/58
Grantees still filing
35/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT: $3,075,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENTACLU OF MICHIGAN: $2,350,000 · OtherACLU OF MICHIGANGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,836,064 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYFIRST STEPS OF KENT COUNTY: $715,000 · OtherFIRST STEPS OF KENT COUNTYOUR HOPE: $515,000 · Other+39 more: $4,401,500 · Other+39 moreGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $2,673,560 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS ART M…THE DIATRIBE INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DIATRIBE INCGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC…THE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCE: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOSAIC FILM EX…ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER: $140,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $170,000 · Arts & CultureAquinas College: $2,465,000 · EducationAquinas CollegeGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS PUBL…WEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $290,000 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN CEN…BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $225,000 · EducationBLANDFORD NATURE …+3 more: $130,000 · EducationHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $1,085,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF W…DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY: $1,015,000 · PhilanthropyDISABILITY…GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPI…+1 more: $64,400 · PhilanthropyYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $230,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER: $107,665 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $100,000 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $100,000 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $70,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS MICHIGAN: $50,000 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesDISART: $337,500 · HealthHealth Net of West Michigan: $190,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $80,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $325,000 · Housing & ShelterAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterICCF COMMUNITY HOMES: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterHEALTHY HOMES COALITION OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$12,892,564Arts & Culture$3,983,560Education$3,860,000Philanthropy$2,289,400Human Services$692,665Health$607,500Housing & Shelter$490,000

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 budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $2,673,560 over 8y, 13% of budgetAquinas College: $2,465,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $1,085,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY: $1,015,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTHE DIATRIBE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $400,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDISART: $337,500 over 7y, 35% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $325,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC: $300,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $290,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $230,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $225,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHealth Net of West Michigan: $190,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetINDIAN TRAILS CAMP: $170,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Resource Center: $150,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetGARFIELD PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIA: $150,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER: $140,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER: $107,665 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $105,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBEYOND 26 INC: $105,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFERRIS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Refugee Education Center: $100,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetK-CONNECT: $95,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTHE ARC KENT COUNTY INC: $95,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEarly Learning Neighborhood Collaborative: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $70,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetICCF COMMUNITY HOMES: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $64,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMontford Hall: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEcliptic At Rosa Parks Circle Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTOGETHER WEST MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND: $47,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS: $28,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpera Grand Rapids: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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.

  • 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 THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds GARFIELD PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIA ↗
  • 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗

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 Community FoundationMI91.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Krw Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Krw 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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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