How much did JACK AND LIJA ROMENCE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of JACK AND LIJA ROMENCE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

grand rapids

2019

grand rapids

2020

educationalgrand rapids

2021

educationeducational

2022

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2023

—

2024

educationalgrand rapids

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $26k
$10k–50k5 grants · $91k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

DA BLODGETT ST JOHNS$20,300
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$20,000
POTTERS HOUSE$20,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL CHILDRES HOSPITA$20,000
HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN$10,500
VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE$7,900
FIRST HAND FOUNDATION$2,180
ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,000
MAP INTERNATIONAL$2,000
GRAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF NURSING$2,000
PROJECT HOPE$1,800
SALVATION ARMY$1,200
CHERRY STREET HEALTH CENTER$1,000
SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION$1,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORKS$700

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$434k · 48 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$434k

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+63%

Still filing today

40%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPublic BenefitHealthInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

CU
CALVIN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +1%
PH
POTTERS HOUSE
4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +72%
VA
VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE
3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +25%

Funded once

PN
PROJECT NEW HOPEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +637%
DC
DEVOS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
one grant, 2021 · $10k
GR
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Luther College

On a campus of more than 800 acres along the banks of the upper iowa river in decorah, iowa, luther is a true residential campus, with 97 percent of students living on campus and nearly 95 percent of faculty choosing to live within five…

Education

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college (see schedule o)

Education

Lewis University

Lewis university, guided by its catholic and lasallian heritage, provides to a diverse student population post secondary education and training.

Education

Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education

Trinity International University

Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.

Education

Central Methodist University

Central methodist university fosters a diverse and caring community, empowering students to become lifelong learners, committed to academic excellence, prepared to engage in a complex world.

Education

Trinity College

Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.

Education

Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

The Gaples Institute

Health

Alvernia University

A catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 56 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,814

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

26/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$272,735Education$135,800Philanthropy$27,870Human Services$13,200Public Benefit$10,400International$10,400Housing & Shelter$2,200

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.

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Jct Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Haven Area Community · Norman & Marilyn Leven Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Mojo Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof 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 organisation JACK AND LIJA ROMENCE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PROJECT NEW HOPE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274555998 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PROJECT NEW HOPE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Jack and Lija Romence?

Find your warmest path to Jack and Lija Romence through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JACK AND LIJA ROMENCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jack and Lija Romence?

More from the funding graph

JACK AND LIJA ROMENCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jack and Lija Romence?

More from the funding graph