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Henry and Mary Vandergoot Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry and Mary Vandergoot Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$335kCivil Rights$195kEducation$60kInternational$3kPublic Benefit$2kArts & Culture$200
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$698k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$27,500
INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE$25,000
MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $30k → 17%CALVIN UNIVERSITY YOUNGSMA CENTER: $60k → 8%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $28k → 11%INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 13%4 OTHERS AFRICA: $1k → 8%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $912 → 9%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $30k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $30k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $30k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $25k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $25k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $10k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE OF RILIGION AND PUBLIC LI: $10k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $10k → 17%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $16k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $6k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRY: $5k → 11%MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES: $15k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISION MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ACT ON INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$512k · 5 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$512k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CT
    CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +38%
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +44%
  • CR
    CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY YOUNGSMA CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF RILIGION AND PUBLIC LI
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AI
    Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
2
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
3
Institute of Chinese Studies

ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally

International
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
6
Carey International Pastoral Training Usa

Providing training for pastors and spiritual leaders for the global church in the historic tradition of Christianity

Religion
7
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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8
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

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9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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10
Reformed International Theological Education Inc

We operate a theological seminary in Ukraine offering bachelor degrees in theology ministry and master of divinity degrees. We have had approximately 270 graduates.

Education
11
World Christian Research

Research and education on global Christianity

Religion
12
Cateclesia Institute

Religious

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; the most unlike its peers is 4 Others Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $190,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INCMAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $71,500 · OtherMAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHCALVIN UNIVERSITY YOUNGSMA CENTER: $60,000 · OtherCALVIN UNIVERSITY YOUNGSMA CENTERCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES: $45,000 · OtherCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES+3 more: $15,200 · OtherCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $203,500 · EducationCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY+2 more: $3,000 · EducationActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $5,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $912 · International
Other$381,700Education$206,500Civil Rights$5,000International$1,912

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $203,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $190,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES: $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $912 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
  • Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds 4 OTHERS AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry and Mary Vandergoot Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry and Mary Vandergoot Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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