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Tyler-Little Family 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.

$684k
Granted FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$791kHealth$737kEducation$522kReligion$368kCommunity Improvement$362kAnimals$313kYouth Development$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k102 grants · $359k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIR ZOO LEGACY FOUNDATION$80,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION$25,000
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CENTER$25,000
FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE$25,000
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$25,000
KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
GRYPHON PLACE$20,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KALAMAZOO$10,000
FIRST TEE OF WEST MICHIGAN$10,000
WMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KESEM: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WORRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WORRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $3k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $1k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $1k → 14%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $52k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $27k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $6k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $3k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $5k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $3k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $5k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $4k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $60k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $41k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $37k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $30k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $8k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $4k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $4k → 12%COMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $3k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $3k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $2k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $3k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $2k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $1k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $2k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $2k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $1k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $1k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
MI
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IN
OH
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CA
CO
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LA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 147 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

147 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
48

Total granted

$4.9M
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+29%

Still filing today

65%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

  • KS
    KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $613k · revenue +42%
  • AZ
    AIR ZOO LEGACY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $276k · revenue +191%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • MS
    MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $66k
  • LI
    LASALLE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SO
    Stewards of Kleinstuck
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -97%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

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…

Public Benefit
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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4
Business Leaders for Michigan 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.…

Community Improvement
5
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
6
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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7
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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8
Michigan Science Center

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.

Education
9
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health
10
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
11
Michigan Colleges Alliance

Michigan Colleges Alliance is a collective of excellent independent colleges and universities located throughout Michigan. MCA helps students pursue their educational goals by organizing on campus tours, funding scholarships and connecting…

Education
12
Mymichigan Medical Center Alma

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Food PantriesCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Developmental Disabilities …Christian Youth CampsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Equine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportSchool District FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterYmca Youth DevelopmentEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr18%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr18%45%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/144
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,712

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.

04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 216 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
132/134
Grantees still filing
90/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS 5000 — $270,159 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS 5000KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION — $144,000 · OtherKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSIONIndividual grant recipient — $134,560 · OtherVIBRANT KALAMAZOO — $95,000 · Other+128 more — $2,032,488 · Other+128 moreKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $612,500 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHE…AIR ZOO LEGACY FOUNDATION — $276,400 · Arts & CultureAIR ZOO LEGACY FOUNDATIO…IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $101,000 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GILMORE INTERNA…Kalamazoo Institute of Arts — $81,040 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo Institute of A…FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE — $56,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $47,800 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $139,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO C…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $110,810 · EducationUNIVERSITY …WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $80,525 · EducationWESTERN MIC…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $80,000 · EducationWESTERN MIC…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $68,000 · EducationCOLORADO ST…MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY — $34,000 · EducationMUSKINGUM U…Culver Educational Foundation — $23,000 · Education+10 more — $28,760 · EducationFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $114,773 · Human ServicesHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO — $107,000 · Human ServicesSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $87,500 · Human ServicesCOMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $23,500 · Human Services+10 more — $63,300 · Human ServicesBronson Health Foundation — $96,040 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC — $68,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $60,000 · HealthGRYPHON PLACE — $57,000 · HealthTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $22,500 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $15,000 · HealthDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $14,500 · Health+12 more — $36,575 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentKalamazoo Nature Center — $79,600 · EnvironmentStewards of Kleinstuck — $25,000 · EnvironmentKALAMAZOO GARDEN COUNCIL INC — $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,676,207Arts & Culture$1,174,740Education$564,095Human Services$396,073Health$369,615Youth Development$178,000Environment$109,600

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $612,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetAIR ZOO LEGACY FOUNDATION — $276,400 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $165,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE — $139,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $114,773 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $110,810 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO — $107,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD — $101,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBronson Health Foundation — $96,040 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVIBRANT KALAMAZOO — $95,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center — $87,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $81,040 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $80,525 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center — $79,600 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC — $68,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION — $65,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre — $64,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $63,400 over 6y, 14% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $62,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE — $57,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE — $56,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION — $55,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $36,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY — $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $32,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $30,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStewards of Kleinstuck — $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCOMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $23,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO — $23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWARM KIDS PROJECT INC — $17,500 over 5y, 50% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC — $17,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN — $14,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $14,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 AIR ZOO LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VIBRANT KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FARMERS ALLEY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Harold and Grace Upjo…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…John E Fetzer Institu…United Way of South C…H P & Genevieve Conna…Preston S and Barbara…Jim Gilmore Jr Founda…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI153.7× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr 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 Tyler-Little Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tyler-Little Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tyler-Little Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 216 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home