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Huff Family Liquidating 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of HUFF FAMILY LIQUIDATING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WMU FOUNDATION ADULT WELLNESS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE | $11,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE KALAMAZOO | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| IS GILMORE INT'L KEYBOARD FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| WMU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| CENTRICA ROSE ARBOR | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $4,500 |
| SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST | $3,500 |
| ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE PARK CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KZOO SPARTANS | $500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +101% since the first grant, against +72% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- KSKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +42%
IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD4× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +191%- FAFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE2× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +101%
Funded once
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +135%- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +134%
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.
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 mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
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…
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To promote the enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of gardens, sculpture, the natural environment and the arts. the most significant activity is to allow guests to experience horticulture and the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds KZOO SPARTANS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO 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 · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Peregrine-Huff Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 Huff Family Liquidating 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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