· Private foundation
A Dale Buist Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +136%
- WSWEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL5× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +27%
- DMDEGAGE MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- BHBECKWITH HILLS CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- HEHUNTER E BOSS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +276%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +45%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Teaching & equipping tomorrows christian leaders.
Christian education
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
Christian education provided for preschool through twelfth grade.
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
Christian day school with pre-k thru 12
Private, christian education: pre-kindergarten - 12th grade. our mission is to build a solid foundation for life by providing students with an excellent education that integrates academic achievement, biblical truth, and christ-like…
The school is committed to making disciples who love god completely and who radically impact the lives of others in the world.
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
Equipping students to serve and glorify God. GCCS offers a Christ-centered education that is grounded in faith, connected through relationships, committed to excellence and prepared for service.
To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.
Nces partners with christian families and churches to provide a god-centered, discipleship-based school with academic excellence and a biblical worldview, equipping students to serve and influence the world for christ.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization A Dale Buist Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Dale Buist Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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