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The Allkins Family Foundation at a glance

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The Allkins Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$102kHealth$42kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$17kYouth Development$6kPhilanthropy$3kHuman Services$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
$1,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$83k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Western Michigan University$36,520
Bronson Health Foundation$15,000
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation$10,000
Kalamazoo Symphonyy Orchestra$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
Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency$1,000
American Heart Association$1,000
St Augustine Cathedral School$1,000
Progressive Deliverance Ministries Church$1,000
Community Healing Centers$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%First Day Shoe Fund: $2k → 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 7 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$116k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+36%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • KS
    KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%
  • WM
    WEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • KL
    KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +36%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MW
    MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +64%
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 College

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…

Education
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 County Humane Society

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

Animals
4
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
5
Kalamazoo Mortgage Hero Salute
Public Benefit
6
Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.

Community Improvement
7
Heritage Community of Kalamazoo Foundation Inc

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

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8
Kalamazoo Housing Advocates

Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.

Human Services
9
Can-Do Kalamazoo

Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Food & Nutrition
10
Kalamazoo Community Foundation

Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

Philanthropy
11
Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association

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…

—
12
Kalamazoo Animal Rescue

To provide refuge and care to homeless, stray, and unwanted cats and dogs.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $58,040 · OtherWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBig Brothers Big Sisters: $6,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big SistersIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $19,347 · Other+14 moreBronson Health Foundation: $25,000 · HealthBronson Health Founda…WEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $10,000 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN CANCER …LENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $3,000 · HealthLENDING HANDS OF MICH…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthKALAMAZOO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $19,500 · EducationKALAMAZOO COUNT…KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO VALLE…KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SY…TALONS OUT HONOR FLIGHT INC: $1,200 · Arts & CultureFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $13,995 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO…MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMINISTRY …FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $1,500 · Human ServicesJENNINGS DEVELOPMENT INTERPLEX: $1,400 · Youth Development
Other$98,387Health$39,000Education$29,500Arts & Culture$22,700Food & Nutrition$16,995Human Services$1,500Youth Development$1,400

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 budgetBronson Health Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $19,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $13,995 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJENNINGS DEVELOPMENT INTERPLEX: $1,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTALONS OUT HONOR FLIGHT INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC: $500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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…John E Fetzer Institu…Irving S Gilmore Foun…United Way of South C…Mike and Sharon Seely…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Molitor Family Founda…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Harold and Grace Upjo…The Pfizer Foundation…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI38.5× affinity16 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 · 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

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 The Allkins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allkins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to The Allkins Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Allkins Family 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 32 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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