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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.

Revenue FY2025
$51k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$94k
Net assets
$339k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Junior League of Kalamazoo Inc does

Mission

The junior league of kalamazoo is an organization of women whose mission is to advance womens' leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. -continued to focus on strategies and shape the 2024-2027 strategic plan. -participated in thirteen community outreach events. -de&I particpated in de&I events to further develop the league's understanding and impact of de&I.

    $8,300 spent
    29% of program spending
  2. Fifteen women attended conferences and trainings, including three members at the day at the capital. Core activities included giving funds to: camp good grief - 2,500 first day shoe fund - 2,000 harper's heart heroes - 1,500 sleep in heavenly peace mi - 1,000

    $20,345 spent
    71% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,645.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($239k)2018 Revenue 108 ($48k) Expenses 89 ($30k) Net assets 108 ($259k)2019 Revenue 129 ($57k) Expenses 115 ($38k) Net assets 116 ($277k)2020 Revenue 124 ($55k) Expenses 141 ($47k) Net assets 119 ($284k)2021 Revenue 127 ($56k) Expenses 208 ($69k) Net assets 121 ($289k)2022 Revenue 169 ($74k) Expenses 168 ($56k) Net assets 126 ($300k)2023 Revenue 97 ($43k) Expenses 126 ($42k) Net assets 128 ($307k)2024 Revenue 103 ($45k) Expenses 142 ($47k) Net assets 132 ($315k)2025 Revenue 115 ($51k) Expenses 108 ($36k) Net assets 142 ($339k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (108)Net assets (142)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $326k to $349k (+7%).

$257k
$272k
$290k
$297k
$301k
$310k
$316k
$326k
$349k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$18k
’18
$18k
’19
$8k
’20
−$13k
’21
$19k
’22
$729
’23
−$2k
’24
$15k
’25
03Who funds it

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.

57%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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.

MI
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC

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05Profile & governance

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

MI

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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?
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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 12 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing