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Jack & Wynnita Joy Westerbeek 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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$522kInternational$228kEducation$204kHousing & Shelter$31kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$3kHealth$900Other$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC (CRU-STUDENT VENTURE)$44,000
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS$26,500
WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ASSOCIATION$20,000
LABAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC (LABAN MINISTRIES)$12,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
THE LAKES CHURCH$5,000
COATS OF ALL COLORS$5,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TRENTON$5,000
LATCOM$4,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC (WYCLIFFE)$4,000
VELVET ASHES INCORPORATED$3,000
CALVIN COLLEGE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
CABO CHURCH$1,000
ABWE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JP'S ABILITY HOPE: $500 → 16%JP'S ABILITY HOPE: $400 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
PA
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
TN
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$940k · 27 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
9

Total granted

$940k
$81k

Still filing today

30%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IN
    INTERNATIONAL NEEDS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $178k · revenue +37%
  • L
    LATCOM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +5%
  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • IN
    INTERNATIONAL NEEDS NETWORK
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • LM
    LABAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

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Christian Vision North America
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2
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
3
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
4
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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5
Explore God Network
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6
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
7
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
8
Connect the World

The purpose of the organization is to share the passionate love of god the father throughout the world, his salvation through his son, the lord jesus christ, and to lead people to an experience with the holy spirit and his power. our…

Religion
9
Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…

Religion
10
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
11
El Porvenir Christian Camp

Spread christ to people refresh believers

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12
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Needs; the most unlike its peers is Jps Ability Hope Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 39 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL NEEDS: $178,400 · OtherINTERNATIONAL NEEDSCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC (CRU-STUDENT VENTURE): $120,850 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC (CRU-STUDENT VENTURE)Individual grant recipient: $84,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $43,400 · OtherLABAN MINISTRIES: $40,750 · OtherLABAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC (LABAN MINISTRIES): $40,225 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $37,250 · OtherLAKES CHURCH: $28,400 · OtherLATCOM: $28,100 · Other+24 more: $212,475 · Other+24 moreWestside Christian Academy: $165,000 · EducationWestside Christian A…CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $20,950 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITYVELVET ASHES INCORPORATED: $14,600 · ReligionNORTHERN LAKES PARTNERS INC: $9,100 · ReligionSPORTSPERSONS MINISTRIES INTL: $4,000 · ReligionJPS ABILITY HOPE INC: $900 · Human Services
Other$814,150Education$185,950Religion$27,700Human Services$900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL NEEDS: $178,400 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWestside Christian Academy: $165,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetLATCOM: $28,100 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $20,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVELVET ASHES INCORPORATED: $14,600 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetNORTHERN LAKES PARTNERS INC: $9,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPORTSPERSONS MINISTRIES INTL: $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJPS ABILITY HOPE INC: $900 over 2y, 0.6% 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 INTERNATIONAL NEEDS ↗
  • Who funds Westside Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds LATCOM ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TWIN OAKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds VELVET ASHES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN LAKES PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPORTSPERSONS MINISTRIES INTL ↗
  • Who funds JPS ABILITY HOPE INC ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jack & Wynnita Joy Westerbeek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack & Wynnita Joy Westerbeek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Jack & Wynnita Joy Westerbeek Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 39 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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