· Private foundation
Bruce & Susan Neckers Foundation
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD REFORMED CHURCH | $8,500 |
| CLYMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| NORTH END COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| ELES PLACE | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| BEACON HILL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $1,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $1,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOLLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| GR PUBLIC MUSEUM | $500 |
| SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| IN THE IMAGE | $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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +37%
- NENORTH END COMMUNITY MINISTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- GRGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $13k
- GRGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +141%
- BNBLANFORD NATURE CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
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The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
To support Methodist Children's Home Society, which is a not for profit organization that provides shelter and services to emotionally impaired children.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Silent Observer of West Michigan. 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 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 59 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 HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Holland Home ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Kids Hope USA ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 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: Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Edp 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 organization 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.
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.