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De Witt Families Conduit 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.

$714k
Granted FY2025still arriving
104
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.2MHuman Services$692kEducation$603kHealth$272kArts & Culture$151kAnimals$120kYouth Development$70kInternational$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k82 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $316k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$115,000
OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER$97,000
GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CEN$53,500
EVERGREEN COMMONS$50,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
COMMUNITY REFORMED CHURCH$22,000
BENJAMIN'S HOPE$22,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$21,674
Individual grant recipient$16,000
RENEW TRC$15,000
NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE$15,000
HOPE COLLEGE - MILLER$14,056
WORDS OF HOPE$14,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$13,500
HARVEST BIBLE CHAPEL$10,957
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $598k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%RENEW TRC: $110k → 10%RENEW TRC: $85k → 10%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $50k → 10%RENEW TRC: $35k → 10%RENEW TRC: $24k → 10%RENEW TRC: $15k → 10%RENEW TRC: $10k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $29k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $24k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $22k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $13k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $13k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $13k → 8%RENEW TRC: $3k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $13k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $12k → 8%RENEW TRC: $3k → 10%CAMP SUNSHINE: $3k → 10%CAMP SUNSHINE: $2k → 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3k → 8%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $1k → 10%CAMP SUNSHINE: $1k → 10%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $1k → 10%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $1k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE - HOUSE 5: $2k → 8%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $1k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE - HOUSE 5: $2k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE - HOUSE 5: $2k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $13k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $13k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $12k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $11k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $6k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $5k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $4k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $4k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $4k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $3k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $3k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $3k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $2k → 8%COMPASSIONATE HEART MIN: $2k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $2k → 8%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 129 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

129 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
23

Total granted

$4.2M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+49%

Still filing today

34%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RT
    RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +397%
  • GC
    GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +135%
  • BH
    BENJAMIN'S HOPE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +212%

Funded once

  • M2
    MISSION 21 INDIA
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • DJ
    Dr James Dobson Family Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +62%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Cedar Lake Ministries

Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.

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2
Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries Inc

Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.

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
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
5
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
6
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
7
Biblical Counseling and Training Ministries

To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.

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8
Gull Lake Ministries

Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.

Religion
9
Freedom That Lasts Ministries

Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.

Human Services
10
Serving Alongside Ministry

The mission of the organization is to provide ministry leaders, such as pastors, lay ministers and misionaires with individual, marriage and crisis counseling in the untied states and around the world

Religion
11
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
12
World of Opportunity

World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship; the most unlike its peers is American Values. 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

54 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. 54 of the 156 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $389,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $261,746 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $215,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $152,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY REFORMED CHURCH: $133,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $123,000 · Other+111 more: $1,306,506 · Other+111 moreRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $285,000 · Human ServicesRENEW THERAPEUT…BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $144,337 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN'S HOPECRITTER BARN: $59,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BARNEVERGREEN COMMONS: $53,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN COMMO…COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $25,000 · Human Services+7 more: $31,550 · Human ServicesGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $263,250 · ReligionGENEVA CAMP …BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $80,677 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY …Sonscape Re-Creation Ministries Inc: $78,000 · ReligionSonscape Re-…LATIN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $19,500 · Religion+8 more: $47,120 · Religion+8 moreNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $122,500 · EducationHOPE COLLEGE: $44,500 · Education+3 more: $4,850 · EducationODC NETWORK: $115,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · AnimalsRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL AID INC: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES: $4,000 · InternationalWindwood Farm Home For Children Inc: $15,000 · HealthWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $7,600 · HealthLAKESHORE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $2,000 · Health
Other$2,830,752Human Services$597,887Religion$488,547Education$171,850Animals$117,000International$42,500Health$24,600

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 budgetRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $285,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $263,250 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE: $144,337 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $122,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetODC NETWORK: $115,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $80,677 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSonscape Re-Creation Ministries Inc: $78,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCRITTER BARN: $59,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMONS: $53,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $44,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $19,500 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetWindwood Farm Home For Children Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTwelve21 Global Inc: $14,920 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBELAY YOUTH MINISTRY: $12,700 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHIGHLAND SPRINGS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWine to Water: $9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOOKE COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $8,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSalt Ministries: $8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $7,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AID INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP ROGER: $4,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $4,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES: $4,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN TRAILS CAMP: $3,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKUYPER COLLEGE: $2,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $2,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDixie Boys Baseball Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARNABAS MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNDER THE FIG TREE MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN FAMILY FORUM: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% 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 RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Sonscape Re-Creation Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES 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.

Marvin G & Jerene L D…The Community Foundat…Edgar and Elsa Prince…Barnabas FoundationGrand Haven Area Comm…Merle & Sheri Dewitt …John and Judy Spoelho…Onequest FoundationDouglas & Sandra Deko…Howard Miller Foundat…Jim and Ginger Jurrie…Larry and Karen Mulde…
Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family FoundationMI55.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Onequest Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Howard Miller Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to De Witt Families Conduit Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to De Witt Families Conduit 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 156 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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