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Cornucopia Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $724k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| East Fulton Units Foundation | $1,048,075 |
| Stephens Children Foundation | $105,000 |
| Family Promise Grand Rapids | $100,000 |
| Compassion International | $100,000 |
| Pine Rest Foundation | $100,000 |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum | $83,333 |
| Association of Just Society | $75,000 |
| Calvin University | $60,625 |
| Grand Rapids Symphony | $50,000 |
| Biologos | $50,000 |
| Michigan Christian Study Center | $36,000 |
| Ada Township | $33,333 |
| Grand Rapids Christian Schools | $30,000 |
| Volunteers in Service | $15,000 |
| Greater Europe Mission | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
Compassion International Incorporated5× · 2020–2024 · $235k · revenue +16%- AFASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDSone grant, 2022 · $111k · revenue -34%
- VVoyeurone grant, 2022 · $107k
- MSMADISON SQUARE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Global outreach ministries exists to bring transformation to the nations of latin america by training influential leaders, planting relevant churches, and mobilizing christ-followers to transform their communities.
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…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
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…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elim Christian Services and the most unlike its peers is International Network for Christian Higher Education. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 78 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 CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST FULTON UNITS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Michigan Christian Study Center ↗
- Who funds Tent Schools International ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Facilitators International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds 3XM-USA ↗
- Who funds Living Stones Academy ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT LEGAL AID INC ↗
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 · Barnabas Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos 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 Cornucopia Family 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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