· Private foundation
Douglas L and Kathy J Kool Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| EXALTA HEALTH | $30,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN | $20,000 |
| HOLLAND HOME | $20,000 |
| ICCF | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,111 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $5,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $5,000 |
| ALL BELONG | $2,500 |
| CORD GROUP | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES5× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +30%
- HHHolland Home4× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +49%
- WCWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $32k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
- CRCAMP ROGERone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -16%
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.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Free worldwide distribution of christian literature
Wellspring provides a discipleship model for individuals and churches to engage as a part of their overall spiritual development. this is done through retreat and small group experiences and through equipping churches and organizations to…
To offer clinically trained professionals devoted to restoring lives to wholeness through christ centered counseling, teaching and prayer.
Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.
Brooklink's mission is to equip global christian leaders to fulfull jesus' great commission.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Exalting jesus christ igniting the church in the power of the holy spirit under the authority of the holy bible as the word of god through prayer, leadership development, growing the church, and mission outreach so that the church may be…
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…
Faithworks unites the christian community in mission ministry including construction, medical and children's ministry projects. outreach includes 12 mission projects yearly with volunteer missioners participating.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 43 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 HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Holland Home ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALL BELONG ↗
- Who funds CAMP ROGER ↗
- Who funds Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORD GROUP ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Douglas L and Kathy J Kool Charitable 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.