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Buist Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$314kHuman Services$268kReligion$225kInternational$118kHealth$62kFood & Nutrition$60kEducation$44kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$809k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BYRON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$10,000
ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS$10,000
SELAH EMPOWERS$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
COVENANT CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RODS HEROES: $523 → 12%APPALACHIA REACH OUT: $2k → 36%FINDING FREEDOM RANCH: $2k → 10%GRANT ME HOPE: $3k → 10%GRANT ME HOPE: $2k → 10%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%HOPE UNEXPECTED: $3k → 11%HOPE UNEXPECTED: $3k → 11%TREETOPS COLLECTIVE: $199 → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $20k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $1k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $3k → 11%HOPE UNEXPECTED: $3k → 11%HOPE UNEXPECTED: $3k → 11%HOPE UNEXPECTED: $3k → 11%ALPHA WOMENS CENTER OF LOWELL: $910 → 11%JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%OASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $3k → 11%OASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $3k → 11%OASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $3k → 11%OASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $3k → 11%OASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $2k → 11%ATTIC AFTER SCHOOL: $1k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%UPCYCLE BIKES: $1k → 11%UPCYCLE BIKES: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
UT
CO
KY
MD
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$908k · 51 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
69

Total granted

$908k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+16%

Still filing today

65%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IB
    IMPACT BURUNDI
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +35% · 49% of their budget
  • SO
    Streams of Hope
    5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +172%
  • BS
    Bridge Street House of Prayer
    3× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • WC
    WAYPOINT CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • LF
    LINEFORK FOURSQUARE CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
3
Beacon of Hope

Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.

Religion
4
Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion
5
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
6
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
7
Grand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc

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…

Youth Development
8
His Harvest Stand

To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.

Food & Nutrition
9
Ransomed Heart Ministries

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…

Religion
10
Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights
11
His Hope Ministries Inc

Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.

Housing & Shelter
12
Come to Him Ministries

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services; 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.
04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
46/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYPOINT CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherWAYPOINT CHURCHLIFE QUEST: $30,000 · OtherLIFE QUESTBARRY COUNTY LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE: $23,825 · OtherBARRY COUNTY LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT COM…HARMONY HOMES - GEORGETOWN: $15,000 · OtherLINEFORK FOURSQUARE CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE: $14,000 · OtherKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $20,000 · OtherSOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $16,000 · Other+106 more: $207,482 · Other+106 moreFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $207,300 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPI…Daffodil Ministries: $53,388 · Housing & ShelterDaffodil MinistriesHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT…+2 more: $13,992 · Housing & ShelterWOODFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,520 · ReligionWOODFIELD CO…Bridge Street House of Prayer: $22,500 · ReligionBridge Stree…Designed To Thrive: $11,000 · ReligionDesigned To …SPORTSPERSONS MINISTRIES INTL: $10,541 · ReligionSPORTSPERSON…+4 more: $5,000 · ReligionStreams of Hope: $38,000 · Human ServicesStreams of H…DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Human ServicesDEGAGE MINIS…HOPE UNEXPECTED: $14,100 · Human ServicesHOPE UNEXPEC…OASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesOASIS OF HOP…Alpha Grand Rapids: $10,000 · Human ServicesAlpha Grand …JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesJASON KINZLE…VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $8,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEERS I…+9 more: $14,115 · Human Services+9 moreIMPACT BURUNDI: $105,000 · InternationalIMPACT BURU…CENTRE DE SANTE LUMIERE CAYES: $8,862 · InternationalCENTRE DE S…+1 more: $3,523 · InternationalALTERNATIVES OF KALAMAZOO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $21,556 · HealthSELAH EMPOWERS: $16,000 · HealthHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES: $14,000 · HealthHUNT FOR A CURE INC: $4,825 · HealthLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $2,370 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthByron Community Ministries Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$391,307Housing & Shelter$290,680Religion$124,561Human Services$123,215International$117,385Health$59,251Philanthropy$56,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $207,300 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIMPACT BURUNDI: $105,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetWOODFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,520 over 5y, 19% of budgetDaffodil Ministries: $53,388 over 2y, 23% of budgetByron Community Ministries Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetStreams of Hope: $38,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBridge Street House of Prayer: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetALTERNATIVES OF KALAMAZOO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $21,556 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSELAH EMPOWERS: $16,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDEGAGE MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE UNEXPECTED: $14,100 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetOASIS OF HOPE CENTER: $14,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDesigned To Thrive: $11,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSPORTSPERSONS MINISTRIES INTL: $10,541 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAlpha Grand Rapids: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCENTRE DE SANTE LUMIERE CAYES: $8,862 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $8,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetICCF COMMUNITY HOMES: $5,992 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAND2HAND: $5,156 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENEROUS HANDS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNT FOR A CURE INC: $4,825 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGRANT ME HOPE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,523 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $2,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $2,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC: $2,172 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPCYCLE BIKES: $2,070 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetH U G S for Horses and Children: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMENTORME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE'S TABLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL BELONG: $1,740 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachia Reach Out: $1,738 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFinding Freedom Ranch Inc: $1,675 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEXCELLING LEADERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKids Hope USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATTIC AFTER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHangar Youth And Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
  • 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 SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds HAND2HAND ↗

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Douglas & Maria Devos…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Barnabas FoundationHeart of West Michiga…Cdv5 FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …Consumers Energy Foun…Marion & Marlene Bett…The Community Foundat…Weller Family Foundat…The Meijer Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI52.2× affinity25 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Buist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Buist Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Buist Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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