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Cdv5 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $855k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $925,000 |
| GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 | $500,000 |
| CHANCE SPORTS | $210,000 |
| HOUSING KENT | $200,000 |
| ADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDS | $100,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN | $100,000 |
| REHOBOTH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $75,000 |
| POTTER'S HOUSE | $75,000 |
| HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY | $50,000 |
| EXALTA HEALTH | $50,000 |
| KENT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
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, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- GRGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +43%
- EFENVISION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +122%
Funded once
FII - NATIONALone grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue -89%- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)graduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +34%
- TVTHE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $223k · revenue -100% · 56% of their budget
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.
Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.
Changing lives through the power of work.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
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 communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 126 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 GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ENVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 ↗
- Who funds Rehoboth Christian School Assoc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TALL TURF MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOUSING KENT FKA HOUSING STABILITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds CHANCE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT ↗
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: Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc
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 Cdv5 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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