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Vicksburg Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| VILLAGE OF SCHOOLCRAFT | $46,000 |
| VICKSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $28,100 |
| SCHOOLCRAFT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| VICKSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| VICKSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| VICKSBURG CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| VICKSBURG COMM SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $9,600 |
| VICKSBURG COMM SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $8,261 |
| SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $6,100 |
| VICKSBURG CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| FIRST DAY SHOE FUND | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those 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 +94% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- SCSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +113%
- VCVICKSBURG CULTURAL ARTS CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +124%
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- SMSW MI MIRACLE LEAGUEone grant, 2019 · $100k
- VUVICKSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $75k
- SMSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN MIRACLE LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · $35k
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.
Identify, preserve, protect, and interpret Vicksburg's historic built environment.
The kalamazoo valley community college foundation serves to support and benefit the kalamazoo valley community college, its students, faculty, staff and entities. the foundation strives to be a well recognized, managed, growing,…
To promote athletics in Vicksburg in both student athletes and coaches. To provide supplementary financial support for various athletic activities and facilities at Vicksburg Community Schools. To encourage and support academic endeavors…
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising…
Economic and community development
volunteer service agency providing support to those who have suffered a loss
To help students achieve their educational goals and make education more accessible to the communities that it serves by working with the college to provide scholarships and funding for special projects.
Counsel and support victims of rape and sexual assault
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vicksburg Community Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bradley Jacob Dow Foundation. 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 31 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 VICKSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds KAIROS DWELLING ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY JACOB DOW 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.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Vicksburg 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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