· Private foundation
Trittschuh Family Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,850 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $1,800 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $1,700 |
| SOUTH HAVEN ART CENTER | $1,650 |
| MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES | $1,000 |
| MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| PARK CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $708 |
| THE WANDER PROJECT | $520 |
| CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| METHODIST CHURCH KALAMAZOO | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION | $500 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 16 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MMMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +22%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +17%- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC3× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SHSOUTH HAVEN ART ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +122%
- TTREEHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +53%
WESTSIDE BABYone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +11%
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To mobilize the caring power of detroit and southeastern michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Betsy's Blankets. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 75 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 SOUTH HAVEN ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds WANDER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BETSY'S BLANKETS ↗
- Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE ↗
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 · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J 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 Trittschuh Family Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.