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Miller-Davis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$59k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$88kHuman Services$40kCommunity Improvement$21kArts & Culture$18kHousing & Shelter$16kFood & Nutrition$11kYouth Development$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Western Michigan University Foundation$6,000
Milestone Senior Services$6,000
Kalamazoo College$5,000
Air Zoo$5,000
Girls Build Kalamazoo$3,500
Kalamazoo Cultural Center$3,000
Kalamazoo Nonprofit Advocacy Coalition$3,000
PoWer Book Bags$2,500
Traverse City Area Public Schools$2,000
Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services Inc$2,000
Comstock Public Schools$2,000
Gryphon Place$2,000
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre$2,000
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation$2,000
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Father Fred Foundation: $2k → 10%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 12%KALAMAZOO DREAM CENTER: $2k → 12%COMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 12%First Day Shoe Fund: $500 → 12%First Day Shoe Fund: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$146k · 26 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
25

Total granted

$146k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+99%

Still filing today

62%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +115%
  • KL
    KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • KR
    KALAMAZOO RESA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -20%
  • FC
    FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
3
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.

Animals
4
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions

Arts & Culture
5
Can-Do Kalamazoo

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

Food & Nutrition
6
Kalamazoo Nature Center

Create relationships & experiences that welcome and inspire people to discover, enjoy, value, and care for nature. Kalamazoo Nature Center envisions a resilient community where all people have strong interconnections with the natural world.

Environment
7
Kalamazoo Country Day School

An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.

Education
8
Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation Development Foundation

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

Recreation & Sports
9
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
10
Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association

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…

11
Kalamazoo Community Foundation

Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

Philanthropy
12
Kankakee Community College Foundation

Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and the most unlike its peers is Power Book Bags. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%8%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr18%47%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%7%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr18%53%35–55yr15%23%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
8%
145/1,717

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.

04the grantee network

36 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KALAMAZOO RESA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherKALAMAZOO RESA FOUNDATIONTRAVERSE CITY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $11,500 · OtherTRAVERSE CITY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLSCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO — $8,500 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOOMilestone Senior Services — $6,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO — $5,500 · OtherTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM — $5,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC — $5,000 · OtherHERITAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $5,000 · OtherGRYPHON PLACE — $5,000 · Other+27 more — $57,700 · Other+27 moreKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLLEGEWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVE…GULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDAT — $6,000 · EducationGULL LAKE COMMUNITY SC…COMSTOCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · EducationCOMSTOCK PUBLIC SCHOOL…KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER — $6,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $4,500 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $2,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $2,000 · Arts & CulturePARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $4,500 · Housing & ShelterKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION — $5,500 · Community ImprovementEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO — $2,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC — $500 · Community ImprovementFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $2,000 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Human ServicesKalamazoo Dream Center — $1,800 · Human ServicesCOMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesFIRST DAY SHOE FUND — $1,000 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$129,200Education$49,000Arts & Culture$15,500Housing & Shelter$14,500Community Improvement$13,000Human Services$12,800Food & Nutrition$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv — $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO — $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDAT — $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC — $3,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMSTOCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY CENTER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $2,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBronson Health Foundation — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER BOOK BAGS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO — $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Dream Center — $1,800 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC — $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI62.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund

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 Miller-Davis 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Miller-Davis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Miller-Davis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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