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KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE

KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,594 to it, the largest being C JOHN AND REVA MILLER CHARITABLE FOUNDA ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$285k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$62k
Net assets
$0
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Kalamazoo Deacons Conference does

Mission

Shares the love and hope of jesus christ by meeting the physical and spiritual needs of people in crisis.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

Serving people in need through clothing, furniture, household items, personal care items and emergency financial assistance. The organization also provides a variety of other services including employement readiness training, community outreach and support for local churches in their home mission ministries.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($341k) Expenses 100 ($418k) Net assets 100 ($156k)2018 Revenue 84 ($285k) Expenses 105 ($440k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018
Revenue (84)Expenses (105)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $167k to $0 (−100%).

$167k
$0
20172018
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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

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

−$77k
’17
−$155k
’18
2.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018
Listed85
Joined·+1
No longer listed·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $4k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE’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

KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE.

49%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 75% · 2019 70% · 2020 100% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

’17
’18
’19
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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

Organizations like KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE: 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 KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE?
KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,594 to it, the largest being C JOHN AND REVA MILLER CHARITABLE FOUNDA ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $61,594 in grants to KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE?
C JOHN AND REVA MILLER CHARITABLE FOUNDA is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 5 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