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Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation at a glance

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Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
81
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$19MArts & Culture$12MHealth$2.5MHuman Services$2.4MRecreation & Sports$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MCommunity Improvement$902kOther$0
02FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+13 grants · $8.8M
$32,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY$4,000,000
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,000,000
THE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ADA TOWNSHIP$500,000
THE JOFFREY BALLET$310,000
PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$250,000
DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY$250,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY$250,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$250,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY$250,000
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$250,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$250,000
PUBLIC MUSEUM OF GRAND RAPIDS$250,000
GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$200,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY$200,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 11%FII - NATIONAL: $1.2M → 10%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $2k → 21%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $10k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $150k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $150k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 76 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
54

Total granted

$38M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NU
    Northwood University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +28%
  • GL
    Great Lakes Center for the Arts
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +53% · 31% of their budget
  • DU
    DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue -92%
  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLET
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • WC
    Whole Child International
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -10%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

—
3
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement
5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—
6
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
7
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
9
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
The Center for Michigan

For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…

Public Benefit
11
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
12
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids; the most unlike its peers is Moriah Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 152 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
71/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwood University: $13,423,000 · EducationNorthwood UniversityDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $1,310,000 · EducationDAVENPORT UNIVERSITYTHE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+9 more: $1,355,000 · Education+9 moreGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $3,982,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lakes Center for the Ar…GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $1,650,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETYTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $1,277,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLETJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,180,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE…GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $1,155,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $925,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN AR…+19 more: $1,336,500 · Arts & Culture+19 moreGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,330,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVER…HOPE NETWORK: $683,000 · OtherHOPE NETWORKORLANDO MAGIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $545,000 · OtherORLANDO MAGIC YOUTH FOUND…ADA TOWNSHIP: $500,000 · OtherKEYSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $375,000 · OtherWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS: $596,600 · OtherWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTUR…CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · Other+66 more: $4,601,010 · Other+66 moreFII - NATIONAL: $1,225,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $300,000 · Human Services+7 more: $139,500 · Human ServicesSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION: $350,000 · HealthPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $160,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthI Understand Love Heals: $90,000 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $87,500 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $80,000 · Health70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY: $60,000 · Health+8 more: $156,000 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION: $1,057,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+7 more: $107,500 · Recreation & SportsHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $660,000 · PhilanthropyPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $44,900 · Philanthropy
Education$17,088,000Arts & Culture$11,505,500Other$9,980,610Human Services$1,664,500Health$1,383,500Recreation & Sports$1,265,000Philanthropy$1,004,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwood University: $13,423,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $3,982,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $1,650,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $1,310,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $1,277,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $1,225,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,180,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $1,155,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION: $1,057,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $925,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $660,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS: $596,600 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetORLANDO MAGIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $545,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $440,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $430,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $350,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $270,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcliptic At Rosa Parks Circle Conservancy: $250,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $230,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWhole Child International: $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES: $200,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetGreater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation: $180,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER: $180,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $160,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS: $100,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBE CAFE: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20: $100,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI Understand Love Heals: $90,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS: $80,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERS: $75,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budget
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.

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.

Douglas & Maria Devos…Dick and Betsy Devos …Grand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationCdv5 FoundationThe Meijer FoundationThe Wege FoundationPeter C & Emajean Coo…The David and Carol V…Heart of West Michiga…The Mercantile Bank F…The Community Foundat…
Douglas & Maria Devos FoundationMI103.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation 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.

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 152 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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