· Public charity
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation
To conduct research into the causes and effects of unemployment and to study and investigate the feasibility and methods of insuring against unemployment and to devise ways and means of preventing and alleviating the distress and hardship caused by unemployment, and to create, experiment with and put into effect any plan or device that…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $3,659,048 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,773,632 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,584 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $462k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KRESA FOUNDATION | $2,123,165 |
| WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (WDI) | $1,011,229 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $187,384 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $139,770 |
| VOCES | $75,000 |
| RUSSEL SAGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CHILD CARE BACK OFFICE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $7,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOURTHERN CALIFORNIA | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $615k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k 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
- KRKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +365%
- MSMICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $10.0M · revenue +329% · 55% of their budget
NEW LEVEL SPORTS2× · 2022–2023 · $310k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SMSouthwestern Michigan Urban Leagueone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -40%
- GKGreater Kingdom Internationalone grant, 2023 · $123k
BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2023 · $74k · revenue -4%
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Kingdom International. 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 47 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW LEVEL SPORTS ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN-CASS-VANBUREN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds VOCES ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southwestern Michigan Urban League ↗
- Who funds Greater Kingdom International ↗
- Who funds WOMENS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RISE CORP ↗
- Who funds DEVELOP IOSCO INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CATCHING THE DREAM LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds TAYLOR TRUST FBO ASU 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: United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · Battle Creek Unlimited Inc · Miller Foundation · 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 W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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.