· Community foundation
Eagle Feather Foundation
To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Eagle Feather Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+6 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $8,270,236 |
| GATEWAY MISSION | $1,000,000 |
| EVERGREEN COMMONS | $1,000,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $500,000 |
| AMPLIFYGR | $285,000 |
| MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER | $200,000 |
| KIDS' FOOD BASKET | $100,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EQUEST CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $38,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN4× · 2022–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +29%- ONODC NETWORK5× · 2021–2025 · $600k · revenue +109%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $230k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MWMOVEMENT WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +4% · 92% of their budget
- HCHolland Community Aquatic Center Foundationone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -90%
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +34%
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Through fund development, we serve our community by assisting memorial healthcare achieve its mission to promote health and provide quality compassionate healthcare in the shiawassee region.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holland Community Aquatic Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFY GR ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds Holland Community Aquatic Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL ↗
- Who funds NCF CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
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 · Frey Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Grand Rapids Community 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 Eagle Feather 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.
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