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Buist Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SELAH EMPOWERS | $10,000 |
| ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS | $10,000 |
| BYRON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION | $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 |
| HOME REPAIR SERVICES | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- IBIMPACT BURUNDI3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +35% · 49% of their budget
- SOStreams of Hope5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +172%
- BSBridge Street House of Prayer3× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- WCWAYPOINT CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
- LFLINEFORK FOURSQUARE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
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.
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.
Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
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.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
West Michigan Youth for Christ seeks to reach young people everywhere, working with the local church and like-minded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who lead by godly lifestyle, devotion to the Bible and prayer, passion for sharing…
To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.
This organization exists to restore men and women to live from their heart - as God's intimate allies - by recovering the treasure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, entrusting that message to the people who have been transformed by it, and to…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Allegan County Youth Livestock Leaders. 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 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 155 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds IMPACT BURUNDI ↗
- Who funds WOODFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Daffodil Ministries ↗
- Who funds Byron Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Streams of Hope ↗
- Who funds Bridge Street House of Prayer ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES OF KALAMAZOO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SELAH EMPOWERS ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNEXPECTED ↗
- Who funds OASIS OF HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Designed To Thrive ↗
- Who funds SPORTSPERSONS MINISTRIES INTL ↗
- Who funds Alpha Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE DE SANTE LUMIERE CAYES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Weller 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 organization 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.
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.
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