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Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AACORN | $2,000 |
| SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| YWCA OF KALAMAZOO | $2,000 |
| WELLSPRING-CORI TERRY AND DANCERS | $2,000 |
| BALLET ARTS ENSEMBLE | $1,500 |
| KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER | $1,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP | $1,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $1,500 |
| RIVERKEEPER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WTWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +57%
- BABALLET ARTS ENSEMBLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +110%
- KNKalamazoo Nature Center8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- PCPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -74%
- JTJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +46%
- CCCAUSE CELEBREone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +24%
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 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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Kpc provides a gathering place where people come together to express themselves creatively, exchange ideas, share culture and connect with one another
In its intimate performance space, the Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) creates professional theatre that challenges the intellect, excites the imagination, informs and entertains. KTC nurtures a community of diverse artists and brings…
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
Cornerstone theater company collaborates with communities. our work reflects complexity, disrupts assumptions, welcomes difference, and amplifies joy.
To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…
The Calumet Theatre Company is committed to offering a quality entertainment experience that provides diverse cultural and artistic opportunities while preserving the historic character of the theater.
The mission of kaatsbaan cultural park is to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence. as both an incubator for creativity and presenter for diverse world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film,…
See schedule o.the jungle's mission is to create courageous, resonant theater that challenges, entertains, and sparks expansive conversation. the jungle's vision is to be a neighborhood theater with national impact, indispensable to our…
To honor and celebrate our rich theatrical heritage while establishing a sustainable foundation for the years to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joyce Theater Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverkeeper Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARTS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAUSE CELEBRE ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
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: The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Peregrine-Huff Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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 Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund 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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