Funding search · EIN 383224966 · Kalamazoo, MI

The Ronda E Stryker and William D

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

455
grants reported
$160.4M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$150,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • General operating support for Kalamazoo County grassroots nonprofits
  • Early childhood education, preschool, and school readiness in Kalamazoo
  • Youth development, out-of-school time, and integrated student supports
  • Housing, homelessness continuum of care, and neighborhood associations
  • Racial equity, anti-racism organizational work, and community justice
  • Maternal and infant health, recovery housing, and behavioral health

Typical grant

The median grant is $150,000 and half of all grants fall between roughly $50,000 and $200,000. The $150,000 figure is close to a standard unit here: dozens of organizations received exactly that amount labeled "WELLNESS SUPPORT" in the same year. The largest checks, from $500,000 up to $5 million, go to systems-level initiatives and anchor institutions such as the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Family Health Center, Communities In Schools, and capital campaigns. With 455 grants to only 106 recipients over three years, most grantees receive money repeatedly and often multiple grants in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
  • WELLNESS SUPPORT
  • MAY BE USED TO SUPPORT THE OBJECTIVES OF ... AT THE DISCRETION OF
  • OPERATIONS SUPPORT AND CAPACITY BUILDING
  • ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZATION

Positioning adjacent work

  • Anchor the work in Kalamazoo County residents specifically; nearly every dollar stays in one county.
  • Ask for general operating or capacity building rather than a narrow project budget; that is their default framing.
  • Size a first ask near $150,000 and treat $500,000-plus as reserved for systems initiatives.
  • Connect to a funded theme: early learning, out-of-school time, housing stability, recovery, or racial equity.

Worth knowing: This is a hyper-local funder: 452 of 455 grants went to Kalamazoo and Portage, with three exceptions total outside Michigan. Giving looks strongly relationship-driven, with a closed circle of about 106 organizations receiving repeat and stacked grants, so an unconnected outside researcher faces long odds without a Kalamazoo-based partner.

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • City of Kalamazoo2 grants · $27.8M
  • Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo7 grants · $13.3M
  • Kalamazoo Community Foundation5 grants · $8.1M
  • Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo6 grants · $6.4M
  • Helping Hands Wellness Center7 grants · $6.0M
  • New Connections of Kalamazoo7 grants · $4.5M
  • Hispanic American Council4 grants · $4.3M
  • Douglass Community Association6 grants · $4.3M
  • Family Health Center1 grant · $3.8M
  • Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative1 grant · $3.7M

Giving over time

$70.9M
2022
$39.7M
2023
$49.8M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 455 grants.

  • $17.8M

    City of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Objectives of imagine kalamazoo 2025

  • $9.9M

    City of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Objectives of imagine kalamazoo 2025

  • $5.0M

    Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Rx kids program

  • $4.0M

    Hispanic American Council · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    El concilio capital campaign

  • $3.8M

    Douglass Community Association · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support & capital campaign

  • $3.8M

    Family Health Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    May be used to accomplish the objectives of the kalamazoo early learning network preschools at family health center's discretion

  • $3.7M

    Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    Launch and support elnc - kalamazoo early childhood education services

  • $3.0M

    Lift Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Lodge house affordable housing development

  • $2.9M

    Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Capacity building

  • $2.9M

    Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Capacity building

  • $2.9M

    Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Capacity building

  • $2.7M

    Prevention Works · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Hub one

  • $2.1M

    Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Elementary integrated student supports

  • $2.1M

    Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Elementary integrated student supports

  • $2.0M

    Ecumenical Senior Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Capital campaign

  • $1.9M

    Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Elementary integrated student support

  • $1.8M

    New Connections of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Operational support for skilled and vocational trade and life skills training for school-age youth.

  • $1.8M

    New Connections of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Operational support for skilled and vocational trade and life skills training for school-age youth.

  • $1.8M

    Helping Hands Wellness Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $1.6M

    Helping Hands Wellness Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $1.6M

    Helping Hands Wellness Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $1.5M

    Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Lisc)- Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Homeward promise

  • $1.5M

    Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support for truth, racial healing & transformation kalamazoo

  • $1.4M

    Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Cradle kalamazoo operational capacity

  • $1.4M

    Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Cradle kalamazoo operational capacity

  • $1.4M

    Young Women'S Christian Association of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Cradle kalamazoo operational capacity

  • $1.2M

    Institute for Public Scholarship · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    The purpose of funding is to secure general operating support for the institute of public scholarship and their associated programs.

  • $1.2M

    United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Kalamazoo county continuum of care

  • $1.2M

    United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Kalamazoo county continuum of care

  • $1.0M

    Kalamazoo County Ready 4s · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $1.0M

    Reach Sober Living · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating

  • $1.0M

    Kalamazoo County Ready 4s · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $1.0M

    Urban Alliance · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $1.0M

    Kalamazoo County Ready 4s · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $952,023

    Reach Sober Living · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Villas at engleman

  • $895,000

    Community Healing Centers · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $895,000

    Community Healing Centers · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $895,000

    Community Healing Centers · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $750,000

    Urban Alliance · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $715,067

    Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Goodwill life guides

  • $700,000

    Kalamazoo County Defender · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Fully operationalize client service project: the village

  • $700,000

    Kalamazoo County Defender · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Fully operationalize client service project: the village

  • $700,000

    Kalamazoo County Defender · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Fully operationalize client service project: the village

  • $650,000

    Helping Hands Wellness Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Initial start up costs to develop the helping hands wellness center, a free medical clinic providing medical, nutritional and mental healthcare for individuals experiencing homelessness and transitional housing resident read all
  • $594,000

    Ministry With Community · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $593,201

    Prevention Works · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Hub one

  • $550,000

    Kalamazoo Youth Development Network · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    May be used to support the objectives of the fatherhood network at the discretion of kalamazoo youth development network

  • $550,000

    Kalamazoo Youth Development Network · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Building a liberatory out-of-school time (ost) sector (operational funding)

  • $545,000

    Kalamazoo Justice Hub (Stara) · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $545,000

    Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operations for the justice hub

  • $539,820

    Disability Network Southwest Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Advocacy & community education - kalamazoo county

  • $528,665

    Disability Network Southwest Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Advocacy & community education - kalamazoo county

  • $527,865

    Disability Network Southwest Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Advocacy & community education - kalamazoo county

  • $525,000

    Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operations for the justice hub

  • $500,000

    Residential Opportunities · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Roi seeks to become an anti-racist organization, through its culture, processes and services offered

  • $500,000

    Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency · Portage, MI · 2023

    Strengthening student support system of care - triangulating student, family, and community supports pivoting potential opportunities to positive outcomes

  • $500,000

    Residential Opportunities · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Roi seeks to become an anti-racist organization, through its culture, processes and services offered

  • $500,000

    Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support for truth, racial healing and transformation kalamazoo

  • $500,000

    Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $500,000

    Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency · Portage, MI · 2022

    Strengthening student support system of care - triangulating student, family, community supports pivoting potential opportunities to positive outcomes

  • $500,000

    New Connections of Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    New connections of kalamazoo

  • $500,000

    Residential Opportunities · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Roi seeks to become an anti-racist organization, through its culture, processes and services offered

  • $491,000

    Ministry With Community · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $486,000

    Rootead Enrichment Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    May be used to support the objectives of bent not broken at the discretion of rootead enrichment center

  • $475,980

    Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Kalamazoo valley accelerated associate program (kvaap) pilot program

  • $475,000

    Read & Write Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $475,000

    Read & Write Kalamazoo · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $425,000

    Community Homeworks · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Operations support and capacity building

  • $425,000

    The Urban Folk Art Exploratory · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    Kalamazoo Youth Development Network · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Building a liberatory out-of-school time (ost) sector (operational funding)

  • $390,009

    Ministry With Community · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $365,000

    Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community (Isaac) · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $365,000

    Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community (Isaac) · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $365,000

    Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community (Isaac) · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Kalamazoo Black Male Alliance · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Kalamazoo Literacy Council · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Helping Other People Exceed Through Navigationjabs · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Hope helps growth & development youth center of hope

  • $350,000

    Kalamazoo Literacy Council · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Kalamazoo Literacy Council · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $333,333

    Reach Sober Living · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Reach sober living operations and expansion

  • $333,333

    Reach Sober Living · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Reach sober living operations and expansion

  • $333,333

    Reach Sober Living · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    Reach sober living operations and expansion

  • $325,000

    The Urban Folk Art Exploratory · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $325,000

    The Urban Folk Art Exploratory · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $305,890

    Healthy House · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support of healthy house, including remodeling of our new residential facility and the continuation of our work in the community including providing sober housing as well as food, bedding, toiletries, read all
  • $300,000

    Rootead Enrichment Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    The Synergy Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Urbanzone mihap & alternative academic program

  • $300,000

    Kalamazoo County Defender · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    May be used to support the objectives of campaign for criminal justice transparency at the discretion of kalamazoo county defender inc

  • $300,000

    Rootead Enrichment Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    The Synergy Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Urbanzone mihap & alternative academic program

  • $300,000

    Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    Rootead Enrichment Center · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $279,569

    Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    Kalamazoo valley accelerated associate program (kvaap) pilot program

  • $275,000

    Care Collective of Southwest Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $275,000

    United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    May be used to support the objectives of care collective of southwest michigan at the discretion of the united way of south central michigan.

  • $275,000

    Community Homeworks · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $270,620

    Vine Neighborhood Association · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    May be used to support the objectives of hope thru navigation at the discretion of the vine neighborhood

  • $262,400

    Premier Athletics for Youth Development · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    The learning lab program

  • $254,080

    Public Media Works · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Narrative change: media of, by, and for black kalamazoo

  • $250,000

    Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services · Kalamazoo, MI · 2024

    General operating support

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