How much did THE BURDICK-THORNE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE BURDICK-THORNE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

covidcross greatercapital

2021

covidchildren'shospitality kalamazoocapital

2022

saugatuckmilestone seniorchildren'scapital

2023

saugatuckmilestone seniorcapital

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k57 grants · $220k
$10k–50k13 grants · $214k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES$25,000
KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
WMU FOUNDATION$25,000
KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION$20,000
WMU FOUNDATION$16,000
WMU FOUNDATION$15,000
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$11,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$11,000
FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS$10,500
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$10,000
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$8,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 13%. 1% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.4M · 70 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

-59%

Still filing today

69%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

WM
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $291k · revenue +43%
KC
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +12%
KS
KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8× · 2017–2024 · $234k · revenue +3%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF KALAMAZOO
one grant, 2018 · $50k
WH
WMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2018 · $40k
PC
PARK CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions

Arts & Culture

Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

To support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund investments, and empower residents.

Public Benefit

The Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum

Ignite curiosity, celebrate innovation, and connect hisotry and science through past, present, and future dreams of flight.

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Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood

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…

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Kalamazoo Christian School

The kalamazoo christian schools, in partnership with christian families and churches, prepare students to serve god responsibly in his world by equipping them with knowledge, skills, and a biblical vision for life, for the advancement of…

Education

Kalamazoo Country Day School

An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.

Education

Glass Art Kalamazoo

Glass art kalamazoo is a glass arts organization dedicated to teaching, creating, and promoting glass art. its mission is to enrich the community through exceptional glass art experiences. glass art kalamazoo currently offers classes,…

Arts & Culture

Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy

Kalamazoo Mortgage Hero Salute

Public Benefit

Heritage Community of Kalamazoo

Coordinate and plan administration of related entities and perform certain fiscal and administrative functions for those entities (all are 501c3 corporations) at charges approximating actual costs.

Human Services

Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program

Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility

Crime & Legal

Downtown Tomorrow Inc

Undertake development activities and projects in the downtown kalamazoo area.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Vic Theatricals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/59

the rest of the field

97/1,240

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.

05the grantee network

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/55

Grantees still filing

40/55

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,905,000Education$748,500Arts & Culture$469,000Human Services$171,000Environment$125,000Food & Nutrition$119,700Housing & Shelter$106,000

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.

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.

Tyler-Little Family FoundationMI93.6× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D

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 organisation THE BURDICK-THORNE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YWCA OF KALAMAZOO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270229331 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on YWCA OF KALAMAZOO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Burdick-Thorne Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Burdick-Thorne Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BURDICK-THORNE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Burdick-Thorne Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE BURDICK-THORNE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Burdick-Thorne Foundation?

More from the funding graph