· Private foundation
The Allkins Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Western Michigan University | $36,520 |
| Bronson Health Foundation | $15,000 |
| Kalamazoo Symphonyy Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation | $10,000 |
| Kalamazoo Country Day School | $7,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| West Michigan Cancer Center | $2,000 |
| First Day Shoe Fund | $1,500 |
| Talons Out Honor Flight | $1,200 |
| Farmers Alley Theatre | $1,000 |
| Community Healing Centers | $1,000 |
| St Augustine Cathedral School | $1,000 |
| Communities In School of Kalamazoo | $1,000 |
| Progressive Deliverance Ministries Church | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%
- KCKALAMAZOO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%
- WMWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MWMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +3%
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 mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
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…
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.
We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community
Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.
Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.
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…
To provide refuge and care to homeless, stray, and unwanted cats and dogs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo and the most unlike its peers is Jennings Development Interplex. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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.
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds LENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds JENNINGS DEVELOPMENT INTERPLEX ↗
- Who funds TALONS OUT HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
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 · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 The Allkins Family 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.
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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