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Folkert Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Folkert Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Muskegon County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Folkert Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $99k. It is dated, not current.
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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND HAVEN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $47,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MUSKEGON COUNTY | $15,000 |
| MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| NO MORE SIDELINES | $6,375 |
| VOX | $5,000 |
| GRAND HAVEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WORLD RENEW | $1,000 |
| LOVE N GRACE HEALING CENTERS | $1,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $1,000 |
| HOLLAND RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CENTER | $1,000 |
| TCM COUNSELING | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +6%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC4× · 2018–2022 · $34k · revenue +29%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MBMuskegon Boys and girls clubone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2019 · $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…
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
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…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Bethany is a faith-based, non-profit senior living community proving a nurturing christian environment and continuum of care that responds to individual needs and choices at all life stages.
Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
Gmcc is an interfaith, multicultural nonprofit organization with a mission "uniting people of faith, serving people in need." we have a 117 year old history collaborating with communites to addressinequities and disparities throughout…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 49 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NO MORE SIDELINES ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Grand Haven Christian School ↗
- Who funds VOX UNITED ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds PARADISE BOUND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE RED HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CAMP ROGER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HAVEN HOME ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION ↗
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 Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 41 Washington St Foundation · Steven and Kathryn Bandstra Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook 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 Folkert Family 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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