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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY | $75,533 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY-WMUK | $30,000 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $27,435 |
| MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES AND FISHES | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF KALAMAZOO | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| OUT METROWEST | $10,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GOODWILL OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON PFLAG | $10,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $5,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $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 (FY18–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- MWMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +580%
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +42%
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- WWMUKone grant, 2019 · $10k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +60%
- NCNATURE COAST COMM SERVICE FOUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The lansing art gallery & education center provides public awareness, education and enjoyment of the visual arts by promoting the work of michigan artists.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 59 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 SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE IZZY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LArche USA ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds OUT METROWEST INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Hall Houseman Family 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.
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
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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