· Private foundation
Devos Urban Leadership Initiative
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER INC | $79,100 |
| REAL RESOURCES INC | $60,000 |
| THRIVE COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE | $15,000 |
| CONCRETE AND CANVAS | $8,000 |
| MAMA JEANS CREATE HUB | $8,000 |
| PARTNERS IN ACTION INC | $8,000 |
| INSPIRE SCHOOL PROGRAMS | $8,000 |
| NEW LYFE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $8,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERS | $7,500 |
| LEGACY DISCIPLE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE | $7,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| LEGACY DISCIPLE | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- RRREAL RESOURCES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $381k · revenue +179%
- HMHISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $344k · revenue +21%
- 2220 20 Vision For Schools Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- HCHOPE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +25%
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +28%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +104%
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 develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.
Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
To teach youth ministers and youth pastors at christian churches how to instruct or mentor christian youth on the value or religion and bring jesus christ into their lives as well as instructing youth how to be useful, responsible,…
Ministry Leadership Initiative partners with local churches and religious organizations to enrich the lives of young people with Christian witness by: developing authentic, intentional, and highly proficient leadership, sharing the love…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Equipping and encouraging youth work, both domestic and abroad, through leadership development of indigenous (non-u.s.) christian youth workers in churches, non profit organizations, orphanages and schools.
To develop servant-leaders through spiritual, educational, and entrepreneurial training. our vision - to inspire, equip, train, and empower youth to become servant-leaders and/or entrepreneurs. our passion - to nurture the "divine spark"…
Generation Distinct equips to inspire and equip young adults to discover their God-given passions and join the adventure of changing the world for Christ. We create tools for young adults to believe in three core truths: 1) Young people…
Assist in evangelizing the youth and student culture, assist Christian students and leaders to achieve spiritual maturity and spread the Christian message.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Ministry Center and the most unlike its peers is School Connect Sa. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 REAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds 20 20 Vision For Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERS ↗
- Who funds LEGACY DISCIPLE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds TITUS FOUNDATION MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE SCHOOL PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE AND CANVAS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIS PURPOSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENN HILLS COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds ACROSS NATIONS ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE DANCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds National Network of Youth Ministries ↗
- Who funds Sowing Seeds with Faith Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PASSION LA ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL CONNECT SA ↗
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: Fuller Theological Seminary · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Devos Urban Leadership Initiative 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.
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