How much did DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$24MArts & Culture$10MHuman Services$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.6MRecreation & Sports$2.3MReligion$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.3MSocial Science$1.3MHealth$1.0MOther$27M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

officealumniadvancementmen'sgrand valleylearninghope

2021

talnetcovidsummer learningscholarshipteencookstaff

2022

west leadershipchilduclcsailingeducationfoundationswest aviation

2023

ministryrapids chamberstreamsscholarsinnovationcollectivecamp

2024

change housinghousing securityministrywomen'sscholars

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $27k
$10k–50k40 grants · $834k
$50k–250k32 grants · $3.4M
$250k+11 grants · $6.2M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$67M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$1,325,000
THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC$1,000,000
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS$500,000
ADA TOWNSHIP$500,000
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$500,000
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY$325,000
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20$325,000
PUBLIC MUSEUM OF GRAND RAPIDS$250,000
PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$250,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$250,000
ARTS MARKETPLACE AT STUDIO PARK$244,080
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN$213,800
LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION$150,000
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS$150,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$68M · 149 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

149 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149

Total granted

$68M

$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+61%

Still filing today

74%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

GG
GREATER GRAND RAPIDS CHAMBER FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $8.8M · revenue +101% · 86% of their budget
NC
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +49%
LE
LEADING EDUCATORS INC
3× · 2020–2022 · $3.8M · revenue +47%

Funded once

CF
CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +287% · 29% of their budget
FII - NATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue +156%
TS
THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC
one grant, 2020 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Grand Rapids Area Community

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Grandville Calvin Christian Schools

Equipping students to serve and glorify God. GCCS offers a Christ-centered education that is grounded in faith, connected through relationships, committed to excellence and prepared for service.

Education

Great Lakes Bible College

To provide bible-oriented systematic training, resulting in a two or four year degree.

Education

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

Creating partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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Goodwill Industries of Central

Goodwill industries of central michigan's heartland helps individuals with barriers to competitive employment change their lives through the power of work, by providing soft skills and hard skills training, support services and career…

Employment

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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Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Greater Lansing Youth for Christ

To communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.

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Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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Greater Muskegon Catholic Schools

Educate each student in spirit, mind and body by fostering personal excellence within the Catholic tradition.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vibrant Futures and the most unlike its peers is Herreshoff Marine Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/178

the rest of the field

2,336/26,310

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.

05the grantee network

168 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

165/168

Grantees still filing

127/168

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$24,395,870Other$30,573,948Arts & Culture$10,121,580Human Services$3,190,870Philanthropy$2,614,200Recreation & Sports$2,271,500Religion$1,812,500

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.

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI173.1× affinity95 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · The Community Foundation of The · Steelcase Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family

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 organisation DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREATER GRAND RAPIDS CHAMBER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237221790 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GREATER GRAND RAPIDS CHAMBER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

168 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

168 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation?

More from the funding graph