· Private foundation
Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $376k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $206,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| REST HAVEN | $55,000 |
| ZEELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| WINNING AT HOME | $45,000 |
| HOLLAND ZEELAND COMM FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICE | $30,000 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| MULTIPLY 222 | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $17,500 |
| GATEWAY MISSION | $15,000 |
| OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| THE HUMANITY SHARE | $15,000 |
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $371k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
75 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HCHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $983k · revenue +85%
- SFSociety for Christian Instruction Zeeland8× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +25%
- JMJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +485%
Funded once
- WCWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +55%
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CRCHRISTIAN REFORMED HOME MISSIONSone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.
Habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an affiliate of the americus-based habitat for humanity international. habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to…
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
Oakland christian school is committed to providing excellence in education in an environment which is supportive of christian families and their churches.
Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Christian Education Society and the most unlike its peers is Mikas Lunch Inc. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 85 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 HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Resthaven ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Rehoboth Christian School Assoc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLUS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder 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 Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun 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.