Michigan · Private foundation
Ws & Lois Vandalson 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.
- $707k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $652k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $669k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $633k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $690k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $710k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $480k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc | $324,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Kalamazoo College | $255,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family & Children Services Inc | $240,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ministry With Community Inc | $220,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center | $175,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Kalamazoo Inc | $141,250 | 3 | 2% |
| Comstock Community Center Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Disability Network | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc
How this is measured
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About Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation
- How much does Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation give?
- Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $707,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc ($324k), Kalamazoo College ($255k), Family & Children Services Inc ($240k).
- Does Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation, Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation based?
- Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation is based in MI.
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