· Private foundation
41 Washington St Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $84,000 |
| LOVE IN ACTION | $10,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| GATEWAY MISSION | $10,000 |
| DEGAGE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| KIDS HOPE USA | $5,000 |
| CAMP GENEVA | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,500 |
| COVENANT LIFE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| RESILIENCE | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +141%
- DMDEGAGE MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +74%
- TOTHE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- LILOVE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DDAYBREAKone grant, 2017 · $4k
- DCDAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
We build bridges between people experiencing the immediate effects of poverty and homelessness to the physical and spiritual resources available to alleviate suffering and facilitate long term transformation.
To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction
Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Christian counseling ministry
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Barnabas Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Kids Hope USA ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOR ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Folkert Family Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 41 Washington St Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.