· Private foundation
David & Mary Slikkers Family 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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IN DISCIPLESHIP | $58,000 |
| IT IS WRITTEN | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| ADVENTIST FRONTIER MISSIONS | $15,000 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| VARIOUS | $5,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $7k · revenue +90%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +183%- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- WSWILL STRONG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HOHOLLAND OZ PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $3k
- RGRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Legacy disciple organizes conferences to encourage, equip and empower everyday christians to be disciples who make disciples for christ. we accomplish this mission through creative conferences, quality content and broad collaboration.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 50 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 IN DISCIPLESHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds IT IS WRITTEN INC ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST FRONTIER MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds Project DOVE ↗
- Who funds SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KINGS HERALDS INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Slikkers Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David & Mary Slikkers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Mary Slikkers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Project Dove: 85% of income from government
How this is measured
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