Michigan · Nonprofit
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,451 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($54,059). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Irving S Gilmore Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
80% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $12k → $15k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 71% · 2020 65% · 2021 42% · 2022 64% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
71% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 93 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Irving S Gilmore Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 103 organizations that share your funders · funds 126 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 106 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 99 organizations that share your funders · funds 133 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Burdick-Thorne Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Peregrine-Huff Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Association of Junior Leagues International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sisters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mars Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wattles Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you
- Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 84 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC?
- JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,451 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($54,059). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $94,451 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC?
- KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing