· Private foundation
Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO | $150,000 |
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $80,000 |
| CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $70,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $60,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $55,000 |
| YMCA OF KALAMAZOO | $50,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES | $45,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF MOSES | $44,980 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHWESTERN | $40,000 |
| KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| PREVENTION WORKS | $39,000 |
| CHABAD HOUSE OF WESTERN MICHIGAN | $36,000 |
| KALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERV | $35,000 |
| AACORN FARM INC | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
101 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +42%
- YWYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +18%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SMSW MICHIGAN MIRACLE LEAGUEone grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue -87%
- PRPINE REST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue -77%
IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +90%
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.
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.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility
To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…
To operate and manage according to law and applicable regulations, a certified home for the ages for qualified residents of Kalamazoo county and its surrounding counties.
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
Reclaiming the village through cultural liberation by holding spaces for internal transformation, healing arts and birthing justice.
To assure housing for socially and economically vulnerable residents of kalamazoo county.
Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.
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.
Building relationships to overcome homelessness through diversity, equity, and inclusion in response to god's love for all
How this is measured
88 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. 88 of the 147 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds ZERO DAY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AACORN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds SW MICHIGAN MIRACLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Enna Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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