· Private foundation
The Burdick-Thorne 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 $10k58 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| WMU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES | $25,000 |
| KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION | $20,000 |
| WMU FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WMU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $11,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $11,000 |
| FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS | $10,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +51% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $579k · revenue +42%
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +149%
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- COCITY OF KALAMAZOOone grant, 2018 · $50k
- WHWMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $40k
- PCPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -74%
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.
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
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…
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
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,…
We will be the premier senior living provider that celebrates the whole person while embracing families and partnering with the community
Our mission is to support the city of kalamazoos recreational programs and help improve its parks. we envision better quality of life for the residents of kalamazoo through recreation. we grant scholarships to at-risk youth to support…
Assist downtown development authority in implementing the arcadia creek plan.
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.
The mission of kalamazoo county ready 4s is to "advance fully accessible, high-quality pre-kindergarten education for every 3- and 4-year-old in kalamazoo county through collaborative leadership with public and private community partners."
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 84 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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Choral Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC ↗
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: Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Burdick-Thorne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burdick-Thorne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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