· Private foundation
Jim and Deb Hovinga Charitable Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| GATEWAY MISSION | $15,000 |
| LOVE IN ACTION | $15,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT | $10,000 |
| KIDS HOPE USA | $10,000 |
| CAMP GENEVA | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,500 |
| DEGAGE MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| RESILIENCE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +141%
- DMDEGAGE MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +74%
- KHKids Hope USA8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- LILOVE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DDAYBREAKone grant, 2017 · $4k
- DCDAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction
Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
We build bridges between people experiencing the immediate effects of poverty and homelessness to the physical and spiritual resources available to alleviate suffering and facilitate long term transformation.
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
Street life ministries organizes local churches, civic groups, private individuals and other interested parties to serve the local homeless and impoverished population by providing meals and ad hoc counseling to urge them toward resources…
Grace haven ministries mission is to rescue, renew, restore and return women to family and community after being set free of addiction through the power of jesus christ.
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Kids Hope USA ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOR ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Folkert Family Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jim and Deb Hovinga Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim and Deb Hovinga Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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