· Private foundation
Edward H & Diana H Marsilje Charitable Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of EDWARD H & DIANA H MARSILJE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE COLLEGE - BUSINESS SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $24,000 |
| G R SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| MEIJER FREDERICK GARDEN | $5,000 |
| HOLLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THIRD REFORMED CHURCH | $4,000 |
| EVERGREEN COMMONS | $4,000 |
| FORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLAND | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| HOSPICE | $2,000 |
| REACH FOR RECOVERY | $2,000 |
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, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 30 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +37%
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +202%
- ECEVERGREEN COMMONS9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- LILAJOLLA INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CMCRAN-HILL MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +31%
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.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The community foundation of the holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their…
Davenport university prepares individuals and organizations to excel in the knowledge-driven environment of the 21st century.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…
Lakeland hospital is a 317 bed acute care hospital and provides a full continuum of healthcare services to it's tri-county area. lakeland regional health system is the parent company for lakeland hospitals, nursing homes, and other…
In fulfilling God's calling to serve others, the organization will service aged persons (1) with love and compassion, (2) with a commitment to excellence, and (3) follow Christ's teachings and example in all that the organization does.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resthaven and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 66 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 HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds Resthaven ↗
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 · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Howard Miller Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Baird Foundation Inc · The Warren Westrate Foundation · Thomas M and Marilyn J Dewitt Norman Family Foundation · Merle & Sheri Dewitt 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 Edward H & Diana H Marsilje 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.