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Beusse & Porter Family Foundation at a glance

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Beusse & Porter Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$428kHealth$123kEducation$118kFood & Nutrition$65kEnvironment$43kHuman Services$40kCommunity Improvement$25kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATER$21,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY$21,000
GRAND RAPIDS BALLET$21,000
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$21,000
GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM$21,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN$15,000
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN$13,000
BEACON HILL FOUNDATION$10,000
MARY FREE BED ART THERAPY$10,000
LAND CONSERVANCY OF WEST MICHIGAN$5,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PORTLAND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS OF PORTLAND$5,000
MAZAMAS$4,000
PAWS WITH A CAUSE$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$864k · 26 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

$864k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+68%

Still filing today

65%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +6%
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS BALLET
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +154%
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • EG
    EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • CC
    CHAMBER CHOIR OF GRAND RAPIDS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -53%
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

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.

1
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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4
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
Broadway Grand Rapids

To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…

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8
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
10
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
11
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Ballet; the most unlike its peers is Chamber Choir of Grand Rapids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INCGRAND RAPIDS BALLET: $105,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS BALLETGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $105,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUMGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY: $105,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $65,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANMARY FREE BED ART THERAPY: $25,000 · OtherMARY FREE BED ART THERAPYBILLY BEAR HUG FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherFRUIT & FLOWER CHILD CENTER: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $48,500 · Other+13 moreKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLL…THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationTHE INTERNATIO…EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…BEACON HILL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBEACON HILL …Land Conservancy of West Michigan: $25,000 · EnvironmentMazamas: $18,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHEARTS OF GOLD INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$315,000Other$288,000Education$117,500Health$95,000Environment$43,000Philanthropy$27,500Housing & Shelter$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS BALLET: $105,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLand Conservancy of West Michigan: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBEACON HILL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMazamas: $18,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS: $7,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUKANDU: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInnovation Law Lab: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS BALLET ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
  • Who funds BEACON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mazamas ↗
  • Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UKANDU ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER CHOIR OF GRAND RAPIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS OF GOLD INC ↗
  • Who funds Innovation Law Lab ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Advocacy Program ↗

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…The Meijer FoundationFrey FoundationThe Brookby FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …The Wege FoundationThe Oregon Community …Peter C & Emajean Coo…Morgan Stanley Global…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Brookby Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Beusse & Porter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beusse & Porter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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