· Private foundation
Christopher and Misty Spoelhof 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $40,000 |
| IMMANUEL CHURCH | $38,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $25,000 |
| CALVARY SCHOOLS OF HOLLAND | $20,000 |
| TEAM | $12,000 |
| WINNING AT HOME | $10,000 |
| Covenant Community Church | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Colson Center | $5,000 |
| HOLLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| MERCURY ONE | $5,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOLLAND RESCUE MISSION | $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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +84% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CSCALVARY SCHOOLS OF HOLLAND9× · 2017–2025 · $469k · revenue +15%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +84%- TPTURNING POINT USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $94k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- CHCOMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +58%
- OROUR RESCUEone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -25%
- CWCENTRAL WESLEYAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Two Fish Foundation. 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.
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 20 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 CALVARY SCHOOLS OF HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds TWO FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SKATE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Grace Explorations ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUST THINKING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SCARVES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
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: John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Lanting Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Christopher and Misty Spoelhof 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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