· Private foundation
Craig and Wendy 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLAND ZEELAND | $10,000 |
| POTTERS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MISSION PARTNERS INDIA | $5,000 |
| WINNING AT HOME | $2,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $2,000 |
| Mary Free Bed Foundation | $2,000 |
| GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $1,800 |
| Culture Works | $1,500 |
| HOMECOR | $1,500 |
| Positive Options | $1,000 |
| Special Olympics | $1,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $527k · revenue +85%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +44%
- GCGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- HCHOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $30k
- PHPOTTERS HOUSE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $10k
- HCHARBOR CHURCHESone grant, 2020 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
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.
Recognizing god as the source of all truth, wisdom, and knowledge, lansing christian school partners with christian parents to educate children to the full extent of their god-given abilities. we engage students in an academically…
To lead children and their families into a relationship with jesus christ,equipping them in heart and mind to influence the world for god's kingdom.
Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.
To develop community with the formerly homeless. to offer services to the formerly homeless regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or religious affiliation. to share the love of god with all people we come into contact with.
Valley christian school exists to partner with christian families who desire educational excellence, taught through a biblical worldview, so their children will be prepared for a lifetime of faithfulness and service to jesus christ.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To provide a ministry in the form of services to the poor and disadvantaged people of the lansing area.
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSION PARTNERS INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CULTUREWORKS ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASSKIDS ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VOX UNITED ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOR ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Scott and Janet Spoelhof Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Howard Miller Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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