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Howard Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $792k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLL-ZEEL | $280,000 |
| RESTHAVEN CARE COMMUNITY | $63,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $41,000 |
| MARY FREE BED REHAB HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| READY FOR SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $25,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $20,000 |
| HOLLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $20,000 |
| WESTERN SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $18,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $593k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
77 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COCITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $213k · revenue +95%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +506%
- VAVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation of Holland-Zeelandone grant, 2020 · $107k
- PRPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +118%
- TWTHE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $65k
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.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
To assist christian parents in their task of bringing up children to the glory of god, by means of instruction in the classical disciplines under the universal lordship of christ.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wings of Mercy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 95 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
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 CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey 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 Howard Miller Foundation 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.
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