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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +8%
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +115%
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- KRKALAMAZOO RESA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -20%- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions
Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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.
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.
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…
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
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 field is 19% 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 8% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds GULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds GIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds COMSTOCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY CENTER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES ↗
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: 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.
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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