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The Fletcher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ST AUGUSTINE CATHEDRAL | $20,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $20,000 |
| AACORN | $10,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
| BUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
| DISABILITY NETWORK OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS | $5,000 |
| CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +63%
- CFCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +1%
- HCHospice Care of Southwest Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF KALAMAZOOone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TRTRAUMA RECOVERY ASSOCIATESone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -91%
- HFHOLY FAMILY HEALTHCAREone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
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…
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
To provide refuge and care to homeless, stray, and unwanted cats and dogs.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Acquiring land and homes for the purpose of building new homes, and renovating existing homes to sell to very low income families under interest free land contracts or mortgages. the homes are located in urban areas of kalamazoo county,…
Our values and mission vision: sharing the power of mental wellbeing mission: providing compassionate care throughout our community core values: dignity - we treat everyone as individuals and with respect. stewardship - we are trusted…
Counseling individuals and families and foster care services.
Kalamazoo Family Nonprofit Housing Corporation (FAMILY) was created for the exclusive purpose of providing housing facilities or persons of low income, or for persons whose income does not exceed limits established by federal guidelines…
New genesis, inc. is committed to positively impacting lives in southwest michigan. new genesis is a youth and family services organization whose mission is to transform lives through programs and services that effectively meet expressed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Family Services 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.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK 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.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston 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 organization 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.
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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