· 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS | $1,000 |
| EMMANUEL HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HOLLAND | $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 |
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 (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 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 +15% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES2× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +53%
- HOHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +2%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- RFRELAY FOR LIFE (ACS) OF MUSKEGON COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $3k
- SOSHIELDS OF HOPE WEST MIone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 225 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hands of Hope the Foundation of Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Mi funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hands of Hope the Foundation of Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Mi. Bigger dots raise more.