How much did BRUCE & SUSAN NECKERS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of BRUCE & SUSAN NECKERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

christianhope

2020

—

2021

michchristianhope

2022

christianhope

2023

hopechristian

2024

hollandchristianhope

2025

fndchristianhope

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$247k

Total assets

Largest grants

THIRD REFORMED CHURCH$8,500
CLYMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
NORTH END COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$2,000
HOPE COLLEGE$2,000
BEACON HILL FOUNDATION$1,000
KIDS FOOD BASKET$1,000
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
ELES PLACE$1,000
WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES$500
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FND$500
SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION$500
KIDS HOPE US$500
JOHN BALL ZOO$500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$154k · 28 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$154k

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+46%

Still filing today

54%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth 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

HC
HOPE COLLEGE
7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +11%
KF
KIDS FOOD BASKET
8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +15%
SM
SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION
2× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +361%

Funded once

GR
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2020 · $13k
GR
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUMgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +136%
BN
BLANFORD NATURE CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $2k

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.

Minnewaska Lutheran Home

Nursing home a community of services grounded in faith providing person centered care

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West Michigan Christian Foundation

Encouraging generous, thoughtful, biblical, christian philanthropy

Religion

Wheaton College

Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.

Education

Michigan Christian Home

To provide quality residential and health care services to seniors in a tradition of christian community.

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Great Lakes Bible College

To provide bible-oriented systematic training, resulting in a two or four year degree.

Education

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

House of Hope Midwest

The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.

Human Services

Washtenaw Community College

To give hope and support to washtenaw community college students through scholarships and other philanthropic support.

Education

New Hope Christian College

New hope christian college is an accredited church related four year and graduate degree granting institution whose primary mission is training leaders for ministry and marketplace.

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Central Christian College of Kansas

Educating students within a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college program

Education

Children's Hospital of Michigan

To support pediatric research, education, community benefit programs, and other (see sch o) initiatives to improve the health of children in michigan.

Health

Heart of West Michigan United Way

To impact lives in west michigan by energizing and inspiring people and organizations to make a difference through donations and volunteerism. the most significant activity is raising funds so agency providers and internal programs can…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mel Trotter Ministries. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

323/3,619

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$137,150Education$28,800Food & Nutrition$8,000Health$7,700Human Services$7,000Youth Development$6,700Arts & Culture$5,500

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.

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 Community FoundationMI28.4× affinity11 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 · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The David and Carol Van Andel Family · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · The Community Foundation of The · David E Post Family Foundation · The Meijer 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 organisation BRUCE & SUSAN NECKERS 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812588497 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Bruce & Susan Neckers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bruce & Susan Neckers Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BRUCE & SUSAN NECKERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bruce & Susan Neckers Foundation?

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BRUCE & SUSAN NECKERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bruce & Susan Neckers Foundation?

More from the funding graph