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Jct 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
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 $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF ENGLEWOOD | $100,000 |
| SPARTAN FUND | $50,000 |
| ALANO CLUB OF ENGLEWOOD | $35,000 |
| THAT DAY | $30,000 |
| KENYA DRYLANDS EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FDN | $25,000 |
| SISTERS HAVEN | $15,000 |
| LAYMAN'S FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CRU | $10,000 |
| STUDENT LEADERSHIP SERVICES | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST NETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FDN | $10,000 |
| GREGORY H MONTGOMERY JR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT MISSION | $10,000 |
| OUR HOPE ASSOCIATION | $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, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- TPThe Potters House5× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +72%
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +59%
- OHOur Hope Association8× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +277%
Funded once
- FMFrederik Meijer Gardensone grant, 2020 · $100k
- MGMEIJER GARDENSone grant, 2021 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAHone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.
Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and the most unlike its peers is That Day. 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 82 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 THAT DAY ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Our Hope Association ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NETWORK FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAYMANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds Sisters Haven ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Kent County Inc ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE ↗
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 · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Frey Foundation · Jack and Lija Romence Family Foundation · The Doornink Foundation · Leslie Tassell Foundation Dba Tassell-Wisner-Bottrall Fdn · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · The Meijer 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 Jct 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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