· Private foundation
Molitor 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICARES | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES | $10,000 |
| HOUSING RESOURCES INC | $10,000 |
| GREATER KALAMAZOO UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| U OF M MEDICAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF KALAMAZOO | $7,000 |
| CARE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $5,000 |
| PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP | $5,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +33%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +28%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERSone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -6%
- PHPROJECT H O P E INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
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…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Creating healthy communities - together
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 89 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 LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRTLE HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NTM INFO & RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
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 · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation
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 Molitor Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.