· Private foundation
William T and Frances A Little Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC | $200,000 |
| MICHIGAN FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| KALAMAZOO JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| DOLPHINS PLUS OCEANSIDE MARINE MAMMAL RESPONDER IN | $190,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $180,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF KALAMAZOO | $165,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES | $130,000 |
| KALAMAZOO REFUGEE RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INC | $110,000 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC | $106,500 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FCNL EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center | $100,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER | $93,500 |
| URBAN ALLIANCE | $90,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
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 humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
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…
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.…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
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.…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Gleaners' mission is to be a leader in the fight against hunger. we do this by joining with others to optimize equitable access to nutritious food for those of us facing hunger and working to overcome the conditions causing food insecurity.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Van Andel Research Institute. 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 47 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 CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO REFUGEE RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Urban Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Healthcare Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RIGHTSHARINGOFWORLDRESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Braver AngelsInc ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds TWELVE BASKETS ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
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: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano 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 William T and Frances A Little 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% 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.
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