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Western Michigan University Homer Stryker Md School of Medicine

To educate and inspire lifelong learners to be exceptional clinicians, leaders, educators, advocates and researchers of tomorrow.

$2.2M
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$974kEducation$23kScience & Tech$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,244,516 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,237,266 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$472M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$7,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $37k → 7%LIFE EMS: $6k → 11%KALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $5k → 12%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT INC: $35k → 20%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $31k → 18%NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES: $9k → 12%BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $41k → 9%GENEMARKERS LLC: $389k → 12%OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT INC: $18k → 20%GENEMARKERS LLC: $140k → 12%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 20%BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $21k → 12%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 20%KCMHSAS: $53k → 12%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 20%GRYPHON PLACE: $23k → 12%GRYPHON PLACE: $14k → 12%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $38k → 12%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $23k → 12%OPTIMED: $20k → 12%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$722k · 5 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +265% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$722k
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+265%
+26%

Still filing today

20%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GL
    GENEMARKERS LLC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $529k
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $68k
  • OR
    OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $53k

Funded once

  • IS
    INTEGRATED SERVICES OF KALAMAZOO
    one grant, 2018 · $53k
  • BR
    BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +20%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENEMARKERS LLC: $529,414 · OtherGENEMARKERS LLCWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $67,824 · OtherWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYOCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT INC: $53,000 · OtherOCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT INCINTEGRATED SERVICES OF KALAMAZOO: $52,872 · OtherINTEGRATED SERVICES OF KALAMAZOONATIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $36,511 · OtherFERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $34,768 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine: $31,160 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $30,493 · Other+6 more: $72,044 · Other+6 moreBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $40,526 · HealthBENAROYA RE…GRYPHON PLACE: $36,516 · HealthGRYPHON PLA…Bronson Health Foundation: $21,375 · HealthBronson Hea…KALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $5,467 · Education
Other$908,086Health$98,417Education$5,467

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $40,526 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE: $36,516 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $21,375 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $5,467 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Michigan Health Endowment FundMI13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Local Initiatives Support Corporation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Western Michigan University Homer Stryker Md School of Medicine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Michigan University Homer Stryker Md School of Medicine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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