· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $28,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $20,000 |
| CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $16,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HEALTH CARE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FURNITURE ASSIST | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DISASTER ASSISTANCE | $5,000 |
| MARKET STREET MISSION | $5,000 |
| THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN WESTFIELD | $2,370 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ELIZABETH | $1,500 |
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, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +6%
- CTCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +38%
- CWCONTACT WE CARE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +284%
Funded once
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +0%
- CCCALVIN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHIRCH FAMILY ASSISTANCEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CBCROSSROAD BIBLE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To support and help expand the ministry of christian care by teaching generous giving, securing philanthropic gifts and administering such gifts with biblical principles.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Calvary university is an independent non-denominational institution providing undergraduate and graduate education which prepares christians to live and serve in the church and the world according to a biblical worldview. this is…
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Health Care Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Zuni Christian Mission School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CONTACT WE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Zuni Christian Mission School ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds Christian Health Care Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE ASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CITY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Bernard and Dorothy Hamstra Charitable 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, a single department, or state — 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.