Michigan · Private foundation
Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $756k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $3.2M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $2.4M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $2.8M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.5M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $1.4M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $482k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $690k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo Civic Theatre | $1,710,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center | $850,000 | 2 | 40% |
| United Way of South Central Michigan | $580,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Kalamazoo Inc | $527,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Heritage Community of Kalamazoo | $425,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Rootead Enrichment Center | $410,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Lift Foundation | $400,000 | 2 | 82% |
| Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center | $350,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Ten Strands | $350,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Ecoflight | $260,000 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Enna Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation
How this is measured
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About Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation
- How much does Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation give?
- Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $3,377,418 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (21%), Health (15%).
- Who are Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ($1.7M), Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center ($850k), United Way of South Central Michigan ($580k).
- Does Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc, Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation.
- Where is Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation based?
- Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation is based in MI.
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