· Private foundation
Community Christian Ministries
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE | $3,500 |
| STORE HOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $3,000 |
| NEW CITY NEIGHBORS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ROOSEVELT PARK MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| ACCESS | $2,500 |
| BRIDGE STREET MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY RECOVERY INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +65%
- TCTreetops Collective6× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +72%
- HPHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +362%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CHR REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FNFAMILY NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -34%
- ALASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families…
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.
Biblical counseling
the mission of networks cooperative ministry, inc. is to respond with the hospitality of christ to the food and financial needs of residents and to partner with them to find long-term solutions to poverty.
Provide counseling for all, regardless of ability to pay.
The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…
Christian Services serves as a resource center and clearinghouse matching resources of over 200 Lansing, MI area churches to needs from local indigent people. Coordination of Thanksgiving food baskets, clothes closets, and transitional…
A shared ministry with over fifty churches from various denominations who help to house and feed the homeless. Our guests receive a safe place to stay over night plus a hot meal meals. We also have a day program open year round where…
Following Jesus Christ, who transforms lives, Love Your Neighbor equips our community to love, serve and connect with dignity.
The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The West Michigan friendship center. 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 16. 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 43 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 VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Treetops Collective ↗
- Who funds HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT PARK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RECOVERY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The West Michigan friendship center ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Bridge Street House of Prayer ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KIDS ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS CARRIAGE ↗
- Who funds THE DOCK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
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 · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Cdv5 Foundation · Buist Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Frey Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family 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 Community Christian Ministries 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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