· Private foundation
Weitzenhoffer Seminole Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Communities In Schools Of Kalamazoo | $12,500 |
| MUW Foundation | $10,000 |
| Kalamazoo Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| United Way Of Greater Kalamazoo | $10,000 |
| First Day Shoe Fund | $5,000 |
| Junior Achievement of SW Michigan | $4,000 |
| Pretty Lake Vacation Camp | $2,000 |
| Kalamazoo Nature Center | $2,000 |
| Oshtemo Professional Firefighters Local 5240 | $1,500 |
| Kalamazoo Valley Habitat For Humanity | $1,000 |
| Kalamazoo Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 +111% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +27%
- FDFIRST DAY SHOE FUND8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +430%
- NYNew York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc3× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BSBoy Scouts Of America - Pushmataha Areaone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UWUnited Way Of Kalamazooone grant, 2017 · $12k
- KFKalamazoo Flood Relief Fundone grant, 2018 · $5k
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 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…
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.
Serve as a title holding company for the benefit of kalamazoo valley community college.
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
Support a 501(c)(3) school
The kellogg community college foundation generates and encourages philanthropic giving and manages funds exclusively for kcc to enhance the quality of education while building stronger communities.
Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.
The kalamazoo christian schools, in partnership with christian families and churches, prepare students to serve god responsibly in his world by equipping them with knowledge, skills, and a biblical vision for life, for the advancement of…
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE 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: The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enna 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 Weitzenhoffer Seminole 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ramapo College Foundation — 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.