How much did GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY grant in FY2024?

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY reported 197 grants totaling $11,826,939 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY based?

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY is based in MI.

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY

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· Community foundation

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY

The foundation receives gifts, bequests, and donations to be held in trust and administered exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily in and for, but not limited to, the benefit of the people of ottawa county and the western michigan area.

$12M

Granted FY2024

197

Grants

Communities

$838k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

myeloma patientsfrederik meijermeijer gardenspediatricmmrfclinicalmultiple myeloma

2019

ghsp teamalzheimer'sspendablejohnson endowmentcoast guarddistributionstates coast

2020

horsesbuilding renovationcampaignsoperatescall's increaseincrease accessaccess effective

2021

economic bettermentreligionarts culturediversity inclusionemployment jobsprotection crimecrime justice

2022

educational institutionsinstitutions activitiesreligion spiritualservices-multipurposeculture humanitiesvolunteerism grantmakinggrantmaking foundations

2023

attnmaterialscertificationplanfood truckfeedingreplacement

2024

governmentbrioshorelinelakesideannis watersuitefounding

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 197 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k56 grants · $343k
$10k–50k100 grants · $2.3M
$50k–250k31 grants · $3.4M
$250k+10 grants · $5.0M

$19,859

Median grant

States reached

$193M

Total assets

Largest grants

GRAND HAVEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$837,503
LOVE IN ACTION$766,137
TRI-CITIES FAMILY YMCA$621,310
MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM$616,088
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$536,500
CITY OF GRAND HAVEN$437,976
SPRING LAKE DISTRICT LIBRARY$312,521
MOSAIC COUNSELING$311,818
OTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION$282,439
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN$250,000
OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER$243,750
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GRAND HAVEN$218,777
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART$184,155
LAKESHORE NONPROFIT ALLIANCE$162,500
CHRISTIAN LEADERS MINISTRIES INC$150,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$58M · 225 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

225 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

225

109

Total granted

$58M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+33%

Still filing today

67%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $527k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

GH
GRAND HAVEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +238%
TC
TCM COUNSELING
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +41%
TF
TRI-CITIES FAMILY YMCA
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +176%

Funded once

MC
MICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITALgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $226k · revenue +298%
TJ
THE JOURNEY COMMUNITY CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $186k
VC
VERVE CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $124k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Great Lakes Bible College

To provide bible-oriented systematic training, resulting in a two or four year degree.

Education

Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter

Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

Huron County Community Foundation

Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan

Philanthropy

Grand Rapids Area Community

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement

Grandville Calvin Christian Schools

Equipping students to serve and glorify God. GCCS offers a Christ-centered education that is grounded in faith, connected through relationships, committed to excellence and prepared for service.

Education

Greater Muskegon Catholic Schools

Educate each student in spirit, mind and body by fostering personal excellence within the Catholic tradition.

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Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%2/368

the rest of the field

13%

6,149/47,713

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.

05the grantee network

259 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

244/259

Grantees still filing

183/259

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$38,702,759Human Services$7,188,901Education$6,260,816Philanthropy$2,554,183Arts & Culture$2,311,375Health$1,881,069Religion$1,702,911

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of TheMI136.9× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of The · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Fremont Area Community 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 organisation GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OUTDOOR SPORTS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833558153 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OUTDOOR SPORTS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Grand Haven Area Community?

Find your warmest path to Grand Haven Area Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

259 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grand Haven Area Community?

More from the funding graph

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

259 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grand Haven Area Community?

More from the funding graph