· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $959k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES | $300,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE | $190,000 |
| ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER | $175,000 |
| PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $125,000 |
| YWCA KALAMAZOO | $122,581 |
| LOCAL JOURNALISM FOUNDATION OF KALAMAZOO | $117,418 |
| HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO | $110,000 |
| CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $100,000 |
| HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $98,103 |
| MRC INDUSTRIES INC | $98,103 |
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $98,103 |
| PARKS FOUNDATION OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY | $75,000 |
| SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 86%.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKalamazoo Civic Theatre8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +13%
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN6× · 2019–2024 · $580k · revenue +111%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $527k · revenue +115%
Funded once
SENIOR SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +41%- COCITY OF PORTAGEone grant, 2019 · $100k
- ABASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +51%
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 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 promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
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.
To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…
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…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 94 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 Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds Ten Strands ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Black Arts & Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
- Who funds DOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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