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Thomas a Todd 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO MEETING OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS | $3,500 |
| AACORN | $3,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| QUAKER EARTHCARE WITNESS | $2,500 |
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $1,500 |
| FWCC SECTION OF THE AMERICAS | $1,250 |
| WORLD FELLOWSHIP CENTER | $1,250 |
| HOUSING RESOURCES | $1,250 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +41%
- KVKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +250%
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- KFKALAMAZOO FRIENDS OF RECREATIONone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +22%
- COCITY OF KALAMAZOOone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…
Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
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 the kalamazoo symphony orchestra is to serve our community through outstanding musical listening and learning experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo College and the most unlike its peers is Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds world federalist movementinst for global policy Ltd ↗
- Who funds Quaker Earthcare Witness ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO FRIENDS OF RECREATION ↗
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: Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Thomas a Todd 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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