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Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation at a glance

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Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$310kAnimals$166kHealth$147kHuman Services$106kEducation$55kArts & Culture$46kYouth Development$31kReligion$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILD PAKS$20,000
GENEROUS HANDS INC$20,000
BRONCOS KITCHEN FOUNDATION$17,500
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK$12,000
KALAMAZOO LOAVES AND FISHES$9,500
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$9,500
MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES$7,500
12 BASKETS FOOD PANTRY$7,000
MATTAWAN AREA PANTRY$5,500
COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT$3,500
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$3,500
SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$3,000
ALTERNATIVES$3,000
MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY$3,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $3k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $787 → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $700 → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 12%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$867k · 56 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
24

Total granted

$867k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

61%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GH
    GENEROUS HANDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +93%
  • KL
    KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +63%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • HH
    HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • WF
    WILLIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • FS
    FOREVER STRONG MEMOIRAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
2
Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

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…

Public Benefit
3
Kalamazoo Housing Advocates

Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.

Human Services
4
Kalamazoo Animal Rescue

To provide refuge and care to homeless, stray, and unwanted cats and dogs.

Animals
5
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
6
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
7
Calhoun County Animal Center Inc

To retrieve, care for, shelter and adopt out cats and dogs in calhoun county michigan

Animals
8
Michigan Animal Health Foundation

To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.

Animals
9
Can-Do Kalamazoo

Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Food & Nutrition
10
Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation Development Foundation

Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.

Recreation & Sports
11
Housing Resources Inc

To assure housing for socially and economically vulnerable residents of kalamazoo county.

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12
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mattawan Food Packs. 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

43 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. 43 of the 89 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILD PAKS: $62,500 · OtherWILD PAKSCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $51,200 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERSMILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES: $25,500 · OtherMILESTONE SENIOR SERVICESKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $24,188 · OtherSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $21,000 · Other12 BASKETS FOOD PANTRY: $18,400 · OtherBRONCOS KITCHEN FOUNDATION: $17,500 · OtherKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION: $16,620 · Other+54 more: $236,318 · Other+54 moreGENEROUS HANDS INC: $102,515 · Food & NutritionGENEROUS HANDS INCKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $63,750 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES IN…MATTAWAN FOOD PACKS: $39,993 · Food & NutritionMATTAWAN FOOD PACKSMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $24,565 · Food & NutritionMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INCMATTAWAN AREA PANTRY IN MATTAWAN MICHIGAN: $10,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $9,800 · Food & NutritionSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $41,522 · AnimalsSOCIETY FOR…ANIMALS BEST FRIEND FUND INC: $20,000 · AnimalsANIMALS BES…KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,050 · AnimalsKALAMAZOO C…ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT: $17,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESC…PET RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $6,250 · AnimalsPET RESOURC…Bronson Health Foundation: $53,000 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE: $8,250 · HealthLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $6,000 · Health+4 more: $5,684 · HealthFIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $16,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $12,700 · Human ServicesHospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $12,357 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $12,350 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsGREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC: $7,664 · Recreation & Sports
Other$473,226Food & Nutrition$251,123Animals$103,322Health$72,934Human Services$41,807Youth Development$23,850Recreation & Sports$18,164

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGENEROUS HANDS INC: $102,515 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $63,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $53,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $51,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $41,522 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $24,565 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $24,188 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMALS BEST FRIEND FUND INC: $20,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,050 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT: $17,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $16,250 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC: $15,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $12,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $12,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $12,357 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $12,350 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $12,115 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo: $11,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC: $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMATTAWAN AREA PANTRY IN MATTAWAN MICHIGAN: $10,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMATTAWAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,700 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetOPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO: $9,365 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $8,565 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE: $8,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORAL CHRISTOPHER KELLY WILLIS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTWELVE BASKETS: $7,800 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC: $7,664 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPET RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $6,250 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO: $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $2,515 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBronson Methodist Hospital: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Pantry: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $1,684 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 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.

  • Who funds GENEROUS HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MATTAWAN FOOD PACKS ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ANIMALS BEST FRIEND FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds MATTAWAN AREA PANTRY IN MATTAWAN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MATTAWAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CORPORAL CHRISTOPHER KELLY WILLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWELVE BASKETS ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Tyler-Little Family F…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…United Way of South C…John E Fetzer Institu…Harold and Grace Upjo…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…WK Kellogg FoundationMolitor Family Founda…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI71.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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 Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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