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Bea Aldrink Idema 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$927kEducation$493kHealth$238kYouth Development$207kHuman Services$200kScience & Tech$145kArts & Culture$141kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $427k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $460k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$250,000
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
KIDS HOPE USA INC$100,000
VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$60,000
JOSEPH PROJECT INC$50,000
NEW CITY NETWORKS$50,000
THE POTTER'S HOUSE$50,000
ODC NETWORK$50,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY$35,000
CINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP$25,000
LOUISVILLE YOUTH ORCHESTRA$25,000
COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIP C-SNIP$25,000
UPCYCLE BIKES$25,000
THE STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES$25,000
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $25k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $25k → 11%UPCYCLE BIKES: $25k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%UPCYCLE BIKES: $25k → 11%UPCYCLE BIKES: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$1.3M
$938k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+7%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $437k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • KH
    Kids Hope USA
    3× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +50%
  • NEW CITY KIDS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $157k · revenue +16%
  • TP
    The Potters House
    3× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • WP
    WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DBA CAMP HENRY
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • CH
    CAMP HENRY A MINISTRY OF WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • HC
    HOPE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Grandville Calvin Christian Schools

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.

Education
2
The Good Shepherd Catholic Montessori

The Good Shepherd Catholic Montessori is dedicated to providing an outstanding education to children ages three to fourteen in a catholic atmosphere faithful to the magisterium of the church. Using the philosophy and techniques of the…

Education
3
Youth Haven Inc

To help disadvantaged youth transform their lives by providing learning experiences in a fun and safe christian environment, free of charge.

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4
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
5
Lafayette Christian School Inc

To educate and inspire this generation to impact the culture for christ. lcs operates an early learning center, discovery cottage, collaborative school, preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school. summer camps are offered.…

Education
6
Van Andel Institute Graduate School

To develop biomedical research leaders through a graduate program in molecular and cell biology.

Education
7
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
8
Everyday Blooms Montessori Inc

We believe that the first six years of a childs life are the most critical. We offer a high quality learning environment to a diverse community of children and families.

Education
9
Our Lady of the Woods Corporation

To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.

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10
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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11
Covenant Christian Schools of Indianapolis Inc

The school's objective is to provide an excellent, christ-centered education, equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership, and service.

Education
12
Greater Muskegon Catholic Schools

Educate each student in spirit, mind and body by fostering personal excellence within the Catholic tradition.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Bethasda Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%11%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%7%<5yr15%7%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr13%26%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
16%
2,873/18,303

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
23/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DBA CAMP HENRY — $500,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DBA CAMP HENRYWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $270,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCAMP HENRY A MINISTRY OF WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $100,000 · OtherCAMP HENRY A MINISTRY OF WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA — $50,000 · OtherODC NETWORK — $50,000 · OtherTHE JOSEPH PROJECT INC — $50,000 · OtherWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $50,000 · Other+21 more — $343,500 · Other+21 moreKids Hope USA — $175,000 · EducationKids Hope USAHOPE COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationHOPE COLLEGEThe Potters House — $95,000 · EducationThe Potters HouseVAN ANDEL EDUCATION INSTITUTE — $55,000 · EducationVAN ANDEL EDUCATION…CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $25,000 · EducationVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE — $130,000 · PhilanthropyVAN ANDEL…GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAP…NEW CITY KIDS INC — $156,500 · Youth DevelopmentNew City Networks — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $80,000 · HealthCATHERINES HEALTH CENTER — $40,000 · HealthHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES — $35,000 · HealthEquest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc — $20,000 · HealthBRAVE THE SHAVE — $13,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · HealthUPCYCLE BIKES — $65,000 · Human ServicesSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) — $10,000 · Human ServicesLOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $35,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Grand Rapids — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,413,500Education$475,000Philanthropy$230,000Youth Development$206,500Health$198,000Human Services$125,000Arts & Culture$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKids Hope USA — $175,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC — $156,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE — $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potters House — $95,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPCYCLE BIKES — $65,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew City Networks — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetODC NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHERINES HEALTH CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES — $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEquest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVISTA MARIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVE THE SHAVE — $13,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCT ALLENDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Assisted Development — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpera Grand Rapids — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarly Learning Neighborhood Collaborative — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Douglas & Maria Devos…The Wege FoundationCdv5 FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …The Community Foundat…Jerry & Marcia Tuberg…The David and Carol V…Corewell Health Group…The Meijer FoundationWK Kellogg Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI43.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · The Meijer Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 Bea Aldrink Idema 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bea Aldrink Idema Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bea Aldrink Idema Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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