· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO MEETING OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS | $3,500 |
| AACORN | $3,000 |
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $2,500 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| QUAKER EARTHCARE WITNESS | $2,500 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| HOUSING RESOURCES | $1,250 |
| WORLD FELLOWSHIP CENTER | $1,250 |
| FWCC SECTION OF THE AMERICAS | $1,250 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas a Todd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas a Todd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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