· Private foundation
Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE WAY | $25,000 |
| 725 MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| THE WELL | $10,000 |
| MANY HANDS FOR HAITI | $10,000 |
| STORIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANDY HEEREMA TRUST | $1,740 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMANY HANDS FOR HAITI7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +129%
- 7M725 MINISTRIES2× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +31%
- SASCHOK AND AWE INC2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +476%
Funded once
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +278%
- PBPELLA BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2017 · $20k
- UUNITEone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Le pont international aims to transform lives and communities by equipping the church, empowering the community, and educating children.
Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…
We point people to jesus through loving action and the life-giving word.
To accelerate social, economic, and environmental progress globally by equipping entrepreneurs, innovators, and change makers with the tools to scale their impact
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…
Supportive ministry in countries such as china, india, & uganda. preaching and teaching the gospel, aiding farming and water initiatives, and serving the needs of women and girls.
We are a global Christian organization committed to partnering with indigenous peoples, local churches, and community-based organizations to make disciples of Jesus Christ and help end extreme poverty. We serve indigenous pygmies,…
Shadow of his wings is a ministry, raised up by god, called to "change the world one woman at a time for jesus christ". there is a sense of urgency to help women understand their need of knowing god with all their heart, mind and soul as…
Iris global: empowered by the love of god to stop for the one in need through worship, outreach, family, education, relief, development, healing, and the arts.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation · Vanden Bosch Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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