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KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,183,957 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($4,179,604). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$8.2M
Net assets
$34M
18/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation does

Mission

The Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation serves to support and benefit the kalamazoo valley community college, its students, faculty, staff and entities. The foundation strives to be a well recognized, managed, growing, community-based foundation meeting the needs of the college through charitable fund-raising and ethical financial management.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants to kalamazoo valley community college

    $784,824 spentof which $784,824 as grants
    88% of program spending
  2. Grants to kalamazoo valley museum

    $111,039 spentof which $111,039 as grants
    12% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $895,863.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2018 Revenue 86 ($1.6M) Expenses 70 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($21M)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.9M) Expenses 78 ($1.4M) Net assets 106 ($21M)2020 Revenue 57 ($1.0M) Expenses 69 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($21M)2021 Revenue 142 ($2.6M) Expenses 75 ($1.4M) Net assets 138 ($27M)2022 Revenue 168 ($3.1M) Expenses 80 ($1.5M) Net assets 117 ($23M)2023 Revenue 394 ($7.2M) Expenses 488 ($9.0M) Net assets 118 ($23M)2024 Revenue 107 ($1.9M) Expenses 43 ($790k) Net assets 136 ($27M)2025 Revenue 350 ($6.4M) Expenses 50 ($916k) Net assets 174 ($34M)
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Revenue (350)Expenses (50)Net assets (174)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 $28M to $35M (+27%).

$28M
$29M
$29M
$29M
$36M
$32M
$24M
$28M
$35M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$22k
’17
$269k
’18
$485k
’19
−$231k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$1.6M
’22
−$1.8M
’23
$1.2M
’24
$5.5M
’25
48
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.

Chief executive

Alisha Siebers

Executive director of the foundation

Board chair

Stacie Ferschweiler

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed171919171519272423
Joined·+3+3+3+0+6+11+2+0
No longer listed·13522351
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $153k → $96k.

10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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 VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 76% · 2021 85% · 2022 87% · 2023 18% — 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

64% of KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION'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+5y+6y

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

99% of KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
CT
MO
DC

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

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’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $373k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin86% · top quartile
Months of reserve47.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Kalamazoo Valley Community College · exempt
  • Kalamazoo Valley Community College Holding Company · exempt
  • Kalamazoo Valley Education and Office Park Condominium Assoc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,183,957 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($4,179,604). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $8,183,957 in grants to KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,179,604 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing