· Private foundation
Feyen Zylstra Community Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATTLE CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL | $1,348 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
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Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To provide human milk to improve infant health and save lives.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
The mission of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries (Goodwill) is to help individuals with barriers to self-sufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work. Not charity, but a chance.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and the most unlike its peers is Fionas Footprints Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 40 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 KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT PARK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOWHOPE ORG ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds Literacy Center of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Frey Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Daniel & Pamella Devos 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 Feyen Zylstra Community 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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