· Private foundation
WK Kellogg 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 $10k473 grants · $783k
- $10k–50k159 grants · $3.2M
- $50k–250k784 grants · $107M
- $250k+402 grants · $193M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP | $4,996,530 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DETROITS FUTURE | $4,000,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500,000 |
| BATTLE CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,335,000 |
| PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $2,504,000 |
| INDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER | $2,504,000 |
| NAMATI INC | $2,504,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI | $2,283,730 |
| BATTLE CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,274,317 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS | $2,000,000 |
| CALHOUN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,546,650 |
| GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,434,330 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,391,233 |
| NATIONAL COMPADRES NETWORK INC | $1,300,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED | $1,254,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $101.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of WK Kellogg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
1659 repeat relationships — 783 still active in FY2025, 876 since wound down; 71 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M 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
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP7× · 2018–2025 · $24M · revenue +21%
- BPBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY6× · 2018–2023 · $22M · revenue +81%
- UUNIDOSUS6× · 2017–2022 · $20M · revenue +137%
Funded once
- ICICCF COMMUNITY HOMESone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue -7%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue 0%
- AFALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -98%
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 central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To increase equity and economic opportunity by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income washington area entrepreneurs.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.
Fielding provides doctoral, master's and graduate-level certificate programs in the fields of educational leadership, organization development, and psychology.
To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.
The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1513 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. 1513 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds W E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative ↗
- Who funds RACE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
- Who funds SUMMITS EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT 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: Battle Creek Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Miller Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · Steelcase Foundation · Pritzker Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · The Wege Foundation · McGregor Fund · Tyler-Little Family 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 WK Kellogg 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.
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board — 70% of income from government
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.