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Community Christian Ministries

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$428k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Community Christian Ministries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$22k22%
FY20239$25k33%
FY20228$25k25%
FY202112$26k25%
FY202016$33k63%
FY201914$36k36%
FY201810$29k40%
FY201713$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$65kReligion$60kInternational$43kHealth$24kYouth Development$15kCrime & Legal$14kFood & Nutrition$11kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Community Christian Ministries by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Volunteers in Service$22,00062%
Treetops Collective$17,36560%
HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc$15,00061%
Roosevelt Park Ministries Inc$14,00041%
Community Recovery International$11,26551%
New City Neighbors$11,00040%
Access of West Michigan$8,50030%
Pregnancy Resource Center$7,50040%
Safe Haven Ministries Inc$7,00030%
The West Michigan friendship center$7,00032%
Degage Ministries$5,50020%
Family Network$3,50011%
Bridge Street House of Prayer$3,40020%
Ascension Lutheran Church$3,0001n/a
Community Kids$3,00011%
Starlight Ministries Inc$3,00011%
New Community Church$3,0001n/a
Storehouse of Community Resources$3,00010%
Next Step of West Michigan$2,50010%
Samaritans Carriage$2,5001n/a
The Dock Ministries$2,0001n/a
Forgotten Seniors Ministry Inc$2,0001n/a
Wedgwood Christian Services$2,00010%
Food Share$2,0001n/a
Iccf Community Homes$2,00010%
Home Repair Services of Kent County Inc$1,76510%
United Church Outreach Ministry$1,76510%
Friendship Ministries$1,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Christian Ministries supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVolunteers in Service: $22,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTreetops Collective: $17,365 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetRoosevelt Park Ministries Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Recovery International: $11,265 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNew City Neighbors: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAccess of West Michigan: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Haven Ministries Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe West Michigan friendship center: $7,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDegage Ministries: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Network: $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBridge Street House of Prayer: $3,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Kids: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetStarlight Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStorehouse of Community Resources: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNext Step of West Michigan: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWedgwood Christian Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIccf Community Homes: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome Repair Services of Kent County Inc: $1,765 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Church Outreach Ministry: $1,765 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Ministries: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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 Community FoundationMI41.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Community Christian Ministries?

Find your warmest path to Community Christian Ministries 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.

About Community Christian Ministries

How much does Community Christian Ministries give?
Community Christian Ministries reported 10 grants totaling $24,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Christian Ministries fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Religion (25%), International (18%).
Who are Community Christian Ministries's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Volunteers in Service ($22k), Treetops Collective ($17k), HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ($15k).
Does Community Christian Ministries fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Community Christian Ministries accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Christian Ministries?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation, Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation.
Where is Community Christian Ministries based?
Community Christian Ministries is based in MI.

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 43 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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