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Degroot Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$532k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$836kHealth$760kHousing & Shelter$750kCommunity Improvement$675kEducation$527kYouth Development$319kHuman Services$223kCivil Rights$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $403k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN$100,000
PREVENTION WORKS INC$75,000
CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE$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
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
BIRTH RIGHT OF ST JOSEPH$15,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$15,000
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
GOOD FELLOW FUND$5,000
BRIDGMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$1,600
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $50k → 21%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4'S: $50k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4'S: $50k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4'S: $50k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4'S: $50k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4'S: $50k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4'S: $50k → 12%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 21 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
15

Total granted

$4.0M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-17%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +23%
  • PW
    PREVENTION WORKS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +14%
  • CA
    CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CS
    CANA S PROMISE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CF
    CATHOLIC FOREIGN MISSION FOUNDATION- MARYKNOLL FATHERS AND BROTHERS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • MM
    MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -55%
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
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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2
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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3
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
4
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
5
Berrien County Council for Children

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.

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6
Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber of Commerce

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…

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7
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.…

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8
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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9
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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10
Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber Foundation

To empower the region's business community through leadership, business and community development.

Community Improvement
11
Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 41 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $187,975 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKC READY 4'S: $150,000 · OtherKC READY 4'SBOYS & GIRLS CLUB-BENTON HARBOR: $120,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB-BENTON HARBO…KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION: $117,175 · OtherKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSIONYMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA: $115,850 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER MICHIANAAMERICAN RED CROSS: $84,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $81,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (D/B/A FLOWERS EARLY LEARNING): $52,500 · OtherCANA S PROMISE INC: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC FOREIGN MISSION FOUNDATION- MARYKNOLL FATHERS AND BROTHERS: $50,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC: $45,000 · Other+19 more: $275,243 · Other+19 moreCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $750,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGANKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $300,000 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4…BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $309,840 · PhilanthropyBERRIEN COMMUNITY F…KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $260,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $255,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH…PREVENTION WORKS INC: $675,000 · HealthPREVENTION WORK…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCORNERSTONE ALLIANCE: $675,000 · Community ImprovementCORNERSTONE ALL…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $43,595 · Youth DevelopmentBIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC: $135,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,328,743Human Services$1,050,000Philanthropy$825,340Health$676,000Community Improvement$675,000Youth Development$193,595Civil Rights$135,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $750,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC: $675,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE ALLIANCE: $675,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $309,840 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $300,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $255,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC: $135,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $81,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (D/B/A FLOWERS EARLY LEARNING): $52,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $43,595 over 7y, 11% of budgetMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE RESOURCES: $25,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRIDGMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $9,600 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBERRIEN COUNTY CANCER SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $500 over 1y, 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 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 HOPE RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Berrien Community Fou…Kalamazoo Community F…Hanson Family Foundat…The Marzke Family Fou…American Electric Pow…Fettig Family Foundat…The McLoughlin Family…WK Kellogg FoundationTrittschuh Family Cha…Michigan Gateway Comm…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…Tyler-Little Family F…
Berrien Community Foundation IncMI36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 41 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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