How much did BUIST FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Housing & Shelter$275kReligion$125kHuman Services$123kInternational$112kHealth$59kPhilanthropy$57kFood & Nutrition$31kEducation$24kYouth Development$3kOther$355k

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

2020

kidsfinancial

2021

—

2022

electricalcancer researchfinancial

2023

propertyhandlukariannaemilybehalf kendrakendra kuiper-no

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

03FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k58 grants · $132k
$10k–50k9 grants · $139k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$809k

Total assets

Largest grants

DAFFODIL MINISTRIES$51,388
IMPACT BURUNDI$25,000
BARRY COUNTY LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE$23,825
STREAMS OF HOPE$20,000
BRIDGE STREET HOUSE OF PRAYER$15,000
WOODFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS$10,000
SELAH EMPOWERS$10,000
JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION$10,000
BYRON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$10,000
KENT COUNTY YOUTH FAIR$9,220
FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS$7,300
VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE$7,000
KCTS COMMUNITY ACTION FUND$6,000
BYRON CENTER HIGH SCHOOL$5,000

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 (FY20–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$899k · 50 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$899k

$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+77%

Still filing today

60%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

FP
FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS
5× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +166%
IB
IMPACT BURUNDI
3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +52% · 49% of their budget
BC
BYRON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%

Funded once

WC
WAYPOINT CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $50k
LF
LINEFORK FOURSQUARE CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $15k
TO
TALL OAKS CAMP
one grant, 2022 · $11k

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.

Bridge of Hope Ministries

As a faith-based organization, we believe our mission is to share God's love for all unhoused or housing insecure individuals regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or faith tradition.

Religion

Hope Family Ministries Inc

To provide biblical based counseling

Religion

Come to Him Ministries

To help the hungry, homeless, and the destitute receive a second chance in life by providing food, clothing, and shelter and transition them into a christ centered lifestyle.

Health

Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter

Christs Hope U S a Inc

Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.

Human Services

Haven of Hope Ministry

Haven of Hope is a ministry committed to providing biblical mentoring and education, assisting couples in restoring broken relationships, healing wounded hearts, and leading marriages to emotional and spiritual oneness through the power of…

Religion

Living Faith Ministries International

Our mission is to impact communities by transforming lives. We seek to fulfill the Great Commission by ministering to individuals holistically, meeting their spiritual, physical, and emotional needs.

Religion

L I F E Ministries Inc

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health

His Harvest Stand

In relationship with church and community, we provide christ centered support to individuals and families by meeting immediate needs and providing opportunities for self-sustaining life change.

Food & Nutrition

Urban Family Ministries

Urban Family Ministries exists to strengthen families and change lives by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the urban core of Grand Rapids through relational, spiritual and economic empowerment.

Human Services

Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is a Christian-based nonprofit organization that exists to rescue the next generation from hurt and trauma. We fulfill this mission by providing a 1) comprehensive , long-term residential therapeutic program for…

Education

In Christ Ministries Inc

Bring the message of grace and truth to children teens and adults.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Kids' Food Basket Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/80

the rest of the field

1,040/11,152

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

65 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)

65/65

Grantees still filing

54/65

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$413,120Housing & Shelter$274,680Religion$124,561Human Services$123,215International$111,572Health$59,251Philanthropy$56,500

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 FoundationMI40.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Consumers Energy Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Weller Family Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince 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 BUIST 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: IMPACT BURUNDI.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +52% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462887716 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 IMPACT BURUNDI, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 49% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Buist Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Buist 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.

BUIST 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

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Buist Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BUIST 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

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Buist Foundation?

More from the funding graph