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De Groot 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.

$683k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$608k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.0MPhilanthropy$203kReligion$173kInternational$91kHuman Services$63kCommunity Improvement$27kHealth$11kPublic Benefit$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
  • $250k+1 grant · $608k
$2,950
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$608,050
EMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH$18,500
PARTNERS WORLDWIDE$10,000
WESTMONT COLLEGE$10,000
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$10,000
SALEM CHRISTIAN HOME$9,500
ARTESIA CHRISTIAN$4,000
WORLD HELP$3,000
WORLD VISION$2,950
ROSEWOOD CHURCH$2,285
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$1,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$1,000
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES$1,000
GORDON COLLEGE$500
COVENANT HOUSE$500
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 (FY18–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SALEM CHRISTIAN HOME: $18k → 14%SALEM CHRISTIAN HOME: $12k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%SALEM CHRISTIAN HOME: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%SALEM CHRISTIAN HOME: $8k → 14%SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES: $500 → 14%ARTESIA CHRISTIAN: $4k → 14%ARTESIA CHRISTIAN HOME: $1k → 14%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
GA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 17 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
32

Total granted

$1.3M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+3%

Still filing today

65%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $930k · revenue +58%
  • SC
    SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +114%
  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • C
    CCEF
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • ER
    EMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +75%
  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
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.

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Evangel University

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.

Education
2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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4
Regent University

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.

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5
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
6
Hope International University

The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…

Education
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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8
Welch College

Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life

Education
9
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
10
San Diego Christian College

San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.

Education
11
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
12
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Hope Matters International. 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

27 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. 27 of the 53 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $929,576 · EducationVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · Education+5 more: $43,500 · EducationCCEF: $200,060 · OtherCCEFEmmanuel Reformed Church: $129,000 · OtherEmmanuel Reformed ChurchEMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherEMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH ENDOW…+29 more: $84,147 · Other+29 moreSALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES INC: $52,620 · Human ServicesARTESIA CHRISTIAN HOME INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesWorld Help: $37,540 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $22,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionWORLD VISION INC: $25,330 · InternationalPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $20,000 · InternationalHope Matters International: $2,500 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,700 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $3,500 · Civil RightsYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,018,076Other$438,207Human Services$62,620Religion$60,540International$50,030Civil Rights$3,500Youth Development$3,000

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 budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $929,576 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES INC: $52,620 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Help: $37,540 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $25,330 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTESIA CHRISTIAN HOME INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Matters International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKINGDOM CAUSES BELLFLOWER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZuni Christian Mission School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTS HOPE U S A INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIO Frontiers: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood For Life Ministry Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds World Help ↗
  • Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ARTESIA CHRISTIAN HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Hope Matters International ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM CAUSES BELLFLOWER ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Zuni Christian Mission School ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTS HOPE U S A INC ↗

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.

Barnabas FoundationIL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 De Groot Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from De Groot Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Gordon College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 53 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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