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Peregrine-Huff Foundation at a glance

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Peregrine-Huff 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.

$221k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$258kEducation$144kArts & Culture$135kHealth$104kAnimals$101kHuman Services$60kPublic Benefit$36kRecreation & Sports$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATION$84,000
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$35,000
CITY OF KALAMAZOO-TREASURER$20,000
WMU FOUNDATION$15,000
SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$10,000
KALAMAZOO EXPERENTIAL LEARNING CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MRC INDUSTRIES$10,000
NOWKALAMAZOO$5,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO$5,000
CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS$5,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC$5,000
ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION$2,500
MICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION NETWORK$2,500
KALAMAZOO IN BLOOM$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$625k · 23 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

$625k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    HUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $144k · revenue +67% · 100% of their budget
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
    5× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +26%
  • MI
    MRC Industries Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF KALAMAZOO PARKS REC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • DK
    DOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • K
    KNAC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

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

Animals
2
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
3
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
4
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
5
Kalamazoo Cultural Center

Support of the arts council of greater kalamazoo

Arts & Culture
6
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation

The kalamazoo valley community college foundation serves to support and benefit the kalamazoo valley community college, its students, faculty, staff and entities. the foundation strives to be a well recognized, managed, growing,…

Education
7
Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv

It is the mission of Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services (KNHS), together with residents and community partners, to revitalize neighborhoods and promote comprehensive strategies that foster homeownership.

Housing & Shelter
8
Heritage Community of Kalamazoo

We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community

Human Services
9
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Kalamazoo Nonprofit Advocacy Coalition

To provide affordable, quality spaces and services so that artists, entrepreneurs, and community organizations can thrive in an iconic piece of Kalamazoo history.

Community Improvement
12
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Huff Family Liquidating Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $174,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATION: $144,000 · PhilanthropyHUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATIONASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $43,000 · OtherASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $32,500 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOOCITY OF KALAMAZOO PARKS REC: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF KALAMAZOO PARKS RECCITY OF KALAMAZOO: $21,000 · OtherCITY OF KALAMAZOOCITY OF KALAMAZOO-TREASURER: $20,000 · OtherCITY OF KALAMAZOO-TREASURERGILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FEST: $19,000 · OtherGILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FESTSALVATION ARMY: $18,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherKVCC FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $15,000 · Other+24 more: $123,000 · Other+24 moreKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO C…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationWESTERN MIC…KALAMAZOO EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO E…Local Journalism Foundation: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $39,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO…PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: $17,500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC ME…ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $11,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUN…FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $8,000 · Arts & CultureFARMERS A…Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo…+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMRC Industries Inc: $44,000 · EmploymentSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $40,000 · AnimalsKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCAN-DO KALAMAZOO: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$318,000Other$349,500Education$101,000Arts & Culture$82,000Employment$44,000Animals$40,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $174,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATION: $144,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMRC Industries Inc: $44,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $39,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO IN BLOOM INC: $9,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLocal Journalism Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAN-DO KALAMAZOO: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION NETWORK: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DISABILITY NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKZOO SPARTANS: $1,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCOLE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO IN BLOOM INC ↗
  • Who funds FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds Local Journalism Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
  • Who funds CAN-DO KALAMAZOO ↗

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Tyler-Little Family F…Harold and Grace Upjo…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…Jim Gilmore Jr Founda…John E Fetzer Institu…Preston S and Barbara…United Way of South C…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI46.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peregrine-Huff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peregrine-Huff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Peregrine-Huff Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Peregrine-Huff 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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