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The Hall Houseman Family 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.

$359k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,533
Organizations funded a year
9 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$5.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Hall Houseman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving37$349k30%
FY202323$213k30%
FY202229$165k3%
FY202123$683k17%
FY202025$194k40%
FY201918$71k50%
FY201813$58k31%
FY20179$27kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$692kEnvironment$460kArts & Culture$153kFood & Nutrition$129kHuman Services$69kAnimals$50kHealth$39kEmployment$33kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
RI
CA
CO
VA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of The Hall Houseman Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southwest Michigan Land Conservency Inc$350,04785%
Ministry With Community Inc$81,00081%
Leelanau Conservancy$79,55280%
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra$66,00082%
Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc$48,00060%
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center$31,00070%
Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo$18,00060%
Irving S Gilmore International Keyboard$18,00060%
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts$16,00050%
Kalamazoo County Humane Society$15,00050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$13,00030%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$13,00030%
Western Michigan University$13,0002n/a
LArche USA$12,00040%
The Izzy Foundation$12,00042%
Out Metrowest Inc$10,00012%
Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc$10,00040%
Pro Publica Inc$5,00010%
Old Art Building$5,00030%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$5,00010%
Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan Inc$5,00010%
Mercy for Animals Inc$5,00010%
Grand Valley State University$4,0003n/a
Gull Lake Community Schools Foundat$3,00011%
Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes$3,00011%
Kalamazoo Nature Center$3,00010%
Kalamazoo Animal Rescue$2,00021%
Four Township Water Resources Council Inc$1,0001n/a
Fontana Chamber Arts$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($913k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hall Houseman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthwest Michigan Land Conservency Inc: $350,047 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetMinistry With Community Inc: $81,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLeelanau Conservancy: $79,552 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Symphony Orchestra: $66,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetKalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc: $48,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Kalamazoo: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIrving S Gilmore International Keyboard: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $16,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKalamazoo County Humane Society: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLArche USA: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Izzy Foundation: $12,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetOut Metrowest Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTraverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Art Building: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDemocracy Now Productions Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Northern Michigan Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGull Lake Community Schools Foundat: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Animal Rescue: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFontana Chamber Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 FoundationMI36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Hall Houseman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hall Houseman 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.

About The Hall Houseman Family Foundation

How much does The Hall Houseman Family Foundation give?
The Hall Houseman Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $358,968 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Hall Houseman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Environment (26%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Hall Houseman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southwest Michigan Land Conservency Inc ($350k), Ministry With Community Inc ($81k), Leelanau Conservancy ($80k).
Does The Hall Houseman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hall Houseman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hall Houseman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation, The Burdick-Thorne Foundation.
Where is The Hall Houseman Family Foundation based?
The Hall Houseman Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 59 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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