· Private foundation
Jack and Aletha Goodale Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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: 57% of JACK AND ALETHA GOODALE FAMILY FOUNDATION’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $307k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $25,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| RENEW MOBILITY | $25,000 |
| SECOM | $20,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE | $20,000 |
| AYA | $20,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS | $20,000 |
| GRANDVILLE SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| VISSER FAMILY YMCA IMPACT PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| NEW CITY KIDS | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | $12,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $10,000 |
| HARMEL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MHMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +80%
- UMUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +238%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HHAND2HANDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
- SNSENIOR NEIGHBORS INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +17%
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Creating healthy communities - together
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Creating healthy communities - together
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
The msu chm upper peninsula education corporation is a collaborative medical education corporation funded by the michigan state university college of human medicine and up health system marquette, dedicated to the medical education of…
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
To provide quality medical and dental primary care services to persons of all ages in northwest michigan regardless of ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and the most unlike its peers is Grand Rapids Community College. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 61 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 MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RENEW MOBILITY ↗
- Who funds HUNT2HEAL ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network ↗
- Who funds LORI'S VOICE ↗
- Who funds HOAP INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYGROUNDGR ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRACE'S TABLE ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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 · Frey Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Feeding America West Michigan
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 Jack and Aletha Goodale Family 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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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