· Private foundation
Everett & Joyce Van Der Molen 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| KID'S ALIVE | $8,000 |
| MARKLUND | $8,000 |
| ROSELAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| LOVE Christian Clearinghouse Inc | $6,000 |
| Boulevard Presbyterian Church | $6,000 |
| DONKA | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $5,000 |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries | $5,000 |
| Young Men's Educational Network | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTL | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCH | $4,000 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN Services | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +36%
- DIDONKA INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +17%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- HCHIGHPOINT CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
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.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Sharing the gospel while providing hope and transformation.
Every generation minstries is an international, interdenominational, christian organization which ministers together with local churches to develop effective ministry to children and families. the organization strives to equip overseas…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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…
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 39 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 MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds DONKA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Academy co Richard Van der Molen ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Educational Network ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ART ON SEDGWICK ↗
- Who funds SCARCE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Emmaus Ministries ↗
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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Kehe Cares Foundation Inc · The Service Club of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Everett & Joyce Van Der Molen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Everett & Joyce Van Der Molen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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