· Private foundation
George & Dorothy Vande Woude Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH GOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FREDERICK MEIJER GARDENS | $12,500 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| JOHN H ENDERS FIRE CO INC & RESCUE SQUAD | $1,000 |
| RURITAN CLUB OF CLARKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +59%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +50%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FOFORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -6%
- WIWOMEN IN SCIENCE WISCI NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $7k
- TSTHE SCARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RURITAN NATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George & Dorothy Vande Woude Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George & Dorothy Vande Woude Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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