· Private foundation
Hands of Hope the Foundation of Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Mi
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of HANDS OF HOPE THE FOUNDATION OF CANCER AND HEMATOLOGY CENTERS OF WESTERN MI’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS | $1,000 |
| EMMANUEL HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HOLLAND | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 113 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- TNTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES2× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +53%
- HOHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +4%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NDNEW DAY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
Providing wishes for adults with life limiting cancer
Creating healthy communities - together
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
Helping women with cancer
Gilda's club metro detroit ensures that all people impacted by cancer are empowered with knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and the most unlike its peers is Michelle Marie Lunn Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 225 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHIELDS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE ↗
- Who funds MICHELLE MARIE LUNN HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
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 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hands of Hope the Foundation of Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Mi 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.