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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.

$455k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$840kEducation$825kHealth$467kHuman Services$443kEnvironment$400kYouth Development$315kHousing & Shelter$115kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALANO CLUB$10,000
CRU$10,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
OUR HOPE ASSOCIATION$10,000
GUIDING LIGHT MISSION$10,000
STUDENT LEADERSHIP SERVICES$10,000
GREGORY H MONTGOMERY JR FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SISTERS HAVEN: $15k → 17%SISTERS HAVEN: $15k → 17%SISTERS HAVEN: $15k → 17%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $5k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $5k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $5k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $5k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $5k → 11%BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $5k → 11%BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $5k → 11%BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $5k → 11%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

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
AL
GA
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 53 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
21

Total granted

$3.6M
$410k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+5%

Still filing today

60%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
ReligionHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TP
    The Potters House
    5× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +72%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +59%
  • OH
    Our Hope Association
    8× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +277%

Funded once

  • FM
    Frederik Meijer Gardens
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MG
    MEIJER GARDENS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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.

1
International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Greater Lansing Youth for Christ

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.

—
5
Lou Engle Ministries

Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.

Religion
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Next Worldwide Inc

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.

—
8
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
10
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
11
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
12
Kingdom Advisors Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 82 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $405,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYFREDERICK MEIJER GARDENS: $300,000 · OtherFREDERICK MEIJER GARDENSFELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF ENGLEWOOD: $250,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF ENGLEWOODOur Hope Association: $127,000 · OtherC R U: $115,000 · OtherFrederik Meijer Gardens: $100,000 · OtherMARY FREE BED FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherMEIJER GARDENS: $100,000 · Other+51 more: $1,353,000 · Other+51 moreTHAT DAY: $240,000 · ReligionTHAT DAYNORTHWEST NETWORK FOUNDATION THE: $80,000 · ReligionNORTHWEST NE…LAYMANS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · ReligionLAYMANS FOUN…BEACON OF HOPE: $30,000 · ReligionBEACON OF HO…NEW YORK FELLOWSHIP INC: $25,000 · ReligionNEW YORK FEL…+1 more: $15,000 · ReligionThe Potters House: $175,000 · EducationEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationCornerstone University: $20,000 · EducationThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $65,000 · PhilanthropyBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG LIFE: $145,200 · Youth DevelopmentINVEST IN KIDS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterSTUDENT LEADERSHIP SERVICES INC: $80,000 · HealthALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY: $40,000 · HealthPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthI Understand Love Heals: $10,000 · HealthMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $5,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,850,000Religion$465,000Education$230,000Philanthropy$185,000Youth Development$175,200Housing & Shelter$155,000Health$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHAT DAY: $240,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetThe Potters House: $175,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $155,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $145,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOur Hope Association: $127,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHWEST NETWORK FOUNDATION THE: $80,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetLAYMANS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS: $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSisters Haven: $45,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetALANO CLUB INC: $40,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY: $40,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCASA of Kent County Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBEACON OF HOPE: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK FELLOWSHIP INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCornerstone University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLeadership Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDESTA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHorizons Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI Understand Love Heals: $10,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sisters Haven ↗
  • Who funds ALANO CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Kent County Inc ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
  • Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
  • Who funds BEACON OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project 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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Cdv5 FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Heart of West Michiga…The Mercantile Bank F…Frey FoundationJack and Lija Romence…The Doornink Foundati…Leslie Tassell Founda…Jerry & Marcia Tuberg…The Meijer Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI35× affinity15 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 · 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

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 Jct Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jct Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    How do I get to Jct Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jct 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 82 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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