· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AACORN | $2,000 |
| SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| WELLSPRING-CORI TERRY AND DANCERS | $2,000 |
| YWCA OF KALAMAZOO | $2,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| BALLET ARTS ENSEMBLE | $1,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $1,500 |
| PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP | $1,500 |
| KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER | $1,500 |
| RIVERKEEPER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WTWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +57%
- PLPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +111%
- KNKalamazoo Nature Center8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- PCPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -74%
- HSHENRY STREET SETTLEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +37%
- PSPrimary Stages Company Incone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -2%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARTS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAUSE CELEBRE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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