· Private foundation
The Lawrence and Sylvia Wong Foundation C/O James Vanderroest
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT | $18,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON HARBOR | $16,000 |
| READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO | $15,000 |
| OPEN DOORS | $12,000 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER FOR ARTS (OPER) | $12,000 |
| GIRSL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $11,000 |
| KALAMAZOO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| CRESCENDO MUSIC ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| FOX MUSIC CENTER | $6,000 |
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $6,000 |
| MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ST JOESEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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 +135% since the first grant, against +115% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- KNKalamazoo Nature Center9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +254%
- RAREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +135%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +115%
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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…
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
To conserve natural land and open space - including forests, wetlands, meadows, agricultural lands, and places of scenic beauty - to provide habitat for wildlife and to enrich the lives of people.
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.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Keweenaw Land Trust (KLT) is a community partner protecting land, water and quality of life through conservation, stewardship and nature connections serving the six western counties of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. KLT is a qualified…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Michigan Land Conservency Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 37 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 Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE CENTER COUNCIL FOR THE ART ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds FERNWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES 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 · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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 Lawrence and Sylvia Wong Foundation C/O James Vanderroest 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.