· Private foundation
Degroot 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $403k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN | $100,000 |
| CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| PREVENTION WORKS INC | $75,000 |
| TRI COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $52,500 |
| KC READY 4'S | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA | $25,000 |
| VASHON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| BIRTH RIGHT OF ST JOSEPH | $15,000 |
| BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GOOD FELLOW FUND | $5,000 |
| BRIDGMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $1,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +23%- PWPREVENTION WORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +128%
- CACORNERSTONE ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CFCATHOLIC FOREIGN MISSION FOUNDATION- MARYKNOLL FATHERS AND BROTHERSone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CSCANA S PROMISE INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- MMMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
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.…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
The mission of the children's advocacy center of southwest michigan is to support children through a coordinated response to child abuse and neglect that includes prevention, assessment and intervention.
Member driven organization working to achieve economy prosperity throughout the region. it's mission is to leverage every available resource within out network for the advancement of our members and the betterment of all who live in our…
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.…
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To empower the region's business community through leadership, business and community development.
The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Hope Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (D/B/A FLOWERS EARLY LEARNING) ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COUNTY CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · The Marzke Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Fettig Family Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Trittschuh Family Charitable Foundation · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Degroot Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.