· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $5,000 |
| ALL BELONG | $2,500 |
| CORD GROUP | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES5× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +28%
- 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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Douglas L and Kathy J Kool Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas L and Kathy J Kool Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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