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Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$114k17%
FY202314$125k7%
FY202211$130k0%
FY202113$135k8%
FY202011$125k9%
FY201914$145k7%
FY201817$155k47%
FY201711$122kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$429kReligion$267kHuman Services$114kInternational$95kHealth$45kYouth Development$19kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Calvin University$224,00080%
Foundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc$140,00071%
Calvin Theological Seminary$134,40080%
Contact We Care Inc$75,00074%
Zuni Christian Mission School$65,00071%
World Renew$60,00060%
Christian Health Care Center Foundation$45,00061%
The Presbyterian Church in Westfield$42,9537n/a
Cross Road Correctional Ministries$35,00070%
Christian Appalachian Project Inc$25,00060%
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All grantees of Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Calvin University$224,00080%
Foundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc$140,00071%
Calvin Theological Seminary$134,40080%
Contact We Care Inc$75,00074%
Zuni Christian Mission School$65,00071%
World Renew$60,00060%
Christian Health Care Center Foundation$45,00061%
The Presbyterian Church in Westfield$42,9537n/a
Cross Road Correctional Ministries$35,00070%
Christian Appalachian Project Inc$25,00060%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Market Street Mission Inc$20,0004n/a
Furniture Assist Inc$20,00041%
Wedgwood Christian Services$15,00030%
City Relief Inc$10,00020%
International Aid Inc$10,00020%
Joni and Friends Foundation$5,40010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalvin University: $224,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCalvin Theological Seminary: $134,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetContact We Care Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetZuni Christian Mission School: $65,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWorld Renew: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Health Care Center Foundation: $45,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCross Road Correctional Ministries: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Appalachian Project Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFurniture Assist Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWedgwood Christian Services: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Relief Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Aid Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJoni and Friends Foundation: $5,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Barnabas FoundationIL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Halcyon Foundation Attn Thomas Larson · The Richard and Helen Devos Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation

How much does Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation give?
Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $113,670 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Religion (25%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Calvin University ($224k), Foundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc ($140k), Calvin Theological Seminary ($134k).
Does Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barnabas Foundation, Columbia Bank Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation based?
Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable Foundation is based in NJ.

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 25 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-PF 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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