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· Private foundation
The Fletcher Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$26k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
1
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Religion$1.0MFood & Nutrition$74kHuman Services$22kYouth Development$10kHealth$3kOther$131k
02FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES$5,000
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO$5,000
- AACORN$2,500
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$2,500
- FIRST DAY SHOE FUND$2,000
- CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS$1,500
- KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION$1,500
- ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$1,500
- SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$1,500
- MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY$1,000
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO$1,000
- FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$1,000
02The need
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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, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$228k · 18 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
5
Total granted
$228k
$1.0M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+61%
+102%
Still filing today
39%
40%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +61%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KALAMAZOO4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +230%
- FDFIRST DAY SHOE FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +432%
Funded once
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +102%
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF KALAMAZOOone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TRTRAUMA RECOVERY ASSOCIATESone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -95%
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.
1
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
2
Catholic Family Services
Catholic charities offers social services to people of all ages and faiths in southwest michigan. our vision is to help individuals and families develop stability, independence and healthy lifestyles. we provide tangible help to meet…
Human Services
3
Catholic Human Services Inc
To enhance the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
Human Services
4
Family Medical Center of
Family medical center of michigan, inc. is dedicated to quality and excellence in providing comprehensive, cost-effective primary and preventive health care regardless of age, ethnic background, or ability to pay.
Health
5
Kalamazoo Community Foundation
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice in order to make kalamazoo county the most equitable place to live.
Philanthropy
6
Center for Family Health
The mission of the center for family health is opening the door to health care for all.
Health
7
Kalamazoo College
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world.
Education
8
Child and Family Services of the
To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…
Human Services
9
South County Community Services
South county community services (sccs) is the only human service agency dedicated to serving the 25,000 residents who live in the southern tier of kalamazoo county. with a mission to work with families to improve quality of life, the…
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10
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
11
Child & Family Service of Saginaw
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
Human Services
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo and the most unlike its peers is Trauma Recovery Associates. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Religion$1,000,000Other$130,500Food & Nutrition$74,000Human Services$22,000Youth Development$10,000Health$2,500
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 CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TRAUMA RECOVERY ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY HEALTHCARE ↗
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.
Dorothy U Dalton Foundation IncMI26.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation
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 Fletcher 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 · 0–5%
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: CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 814107324 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 CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% 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 Fletcher Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Fletcher 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines