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Amplify Gr

In partnership with neighbors, local businesses, and community organizations, agr seeks to widen pathways so that all residents have a greater opportunity to participate in and benefit from community growth including providing resources that support holistic revitalization of neighborhoods in and around grand rapids, michigan by…

$386k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$530kCommunity Improvement$258kEmployment$208kEducation$173k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$109,066
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME REPAIR SERVICES$260,000
THE SOURCE$109,066
OAKDALE NEIGHBORS$17,270
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $17k → 11%OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $16k → 11%OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $13k → 11%OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$959k · 6 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$959k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-3%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HR
    HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $520k · revenue +32%
  • ON
    OAKDALE NEIGHBORS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +22%
  • SG
    STEM GREENHOUSE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • IFF
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -3%
  • GR
    GUY'S REMODEL RESTORATION LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC: $520,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INCSOUTHWEST ORGANIZATIONS UNIFYING RESOURCES FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND EMPLOYEE: $207,816 · EmploymentSOUTHWEST ORGANIZATI…IFF: $200,000 · Community ImprovementIFFGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $101,057 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS…STEM GREENHOUSE INC: $33,000 · EducationSTEM GREENHO…OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $58,167 · Human ServicesHOPE ACADEMY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $38,834 · OtherGUY'S REMODEL RESTORATION LLC: $10,000 · Other
Housing & Shelter$520,000Employment$207,816Community Improvement$200,000Education$134,057Human Services$58,167Other$48,834

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC: $520,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZATIONS UNIFYING RESOURCES FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND EMPLOYEE: $207,816 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetIFF: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $101,057 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetOAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $58,167 over 4y, 11% of budgetSTEM GREENHOUSE INC: $33,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budget
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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Cdv5 FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Heart of West Michiga…Frey FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Frey Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amplify Gr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amplify Gr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Amplify Gr?

    Find your warmest path to Amplify Gr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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