· Private foundation
Geenen Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| HARVEST STAND MINISTRIES | $45,000 |
| ENGEDI CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ZEELAND CHRISTIAN | $20,000 |
| OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER | $5,000 |
| WINNING AT HOME | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSociety for Christian Instruction Zeeland5× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +21%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +103%
- ONODC NETWORK3× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- BOBEACON OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Oakland christian school is committed to providing excellence in education in an environment which is supportive of christian families and their churches.
Calvary schools of holland are committed to building christian character and to developing servant leadership in their students within the context of a quality education.
At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.
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…
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…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Christian education
Christian Heritage Academy exists to educate children with excellent academics that place Christ at the beginning and end of all knowledge and to lead children into lives guided by Christ-centered values and respectful relationships.…
(see schedule o)the mission of the holland christian education society (school) is to provide an education of the highest quality that prepares children to live for christ in a global society that exists in partnership with christian…
Heartland Christian Homeschool offers quality education including individual instruction, spiritual guidance, and parent training to home schooling families in order to assist in raising up well equipped citizens of character who are…
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
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 Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation · Onequest Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Geenen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geenen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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