· Private foundation
Preston S and Barbara J Parish 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of PRESTON S AND BARBARA J PARISH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GILMORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL | $53,264 |
| UNITED WAY OF BATTLE CREEK AND KALAMAZOO REGION | $22,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WGVU PUBLIC MEDIA | $656 |
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 (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
55 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 2 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- TKTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +50%
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +60%
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN3× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE BATTLE CREEK AND KALAMAZOOone grant, 2021 · $50k
- STST TIMOTHY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $31k
- STSAINT TIMOTHY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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…
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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…
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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.…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.
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.…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 11% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 111 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.
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- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
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- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
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 · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg 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 Preston S and Barbara J Parish 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.
- Williams College — 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.
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