· Private foundation
John and Judy Spoelhof 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 $10k14 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $722k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $685k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESTHAVEN CARE CENTER | $550,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| GENEVA CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER | $250,000 |
| BENJAMIN'S HOPE | $165,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLANDZEELAND | $130,000 |
| ENGEDI CHURCH | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $80,000 |
| RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $60,000 |
| HOLLAND DEACONS CONFERENCE | $50,000 |
| LUKE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $50,000 |
| GATEWAY MISSION | $45,000 |
| WINNING AT HOME | $40,000 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
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, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +59% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HCHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +85%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
- GCGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +135%
Funded once
- TTTHAT THE WORLD MAY KNOWone grant, 2017 · $35k
- YLYOUNG LIFE TIMBER WOLF LAKEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CFCOUNCIL FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
To provide a ministry in the form of services to the poor and disadvantaged people of the lansing area.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.
Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.
Global outreach ministries exists to bring transformation to the nations of latin america by training influential leaders, planting relevant churches, and mobilizing christ-followers to transform their communities.
To glorify god by sharing the gospel and making disciples of jesus christ through partnerships with christian ministries in the countries we serve and through short-term mission trips that demonstrate the love of christ through…
The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 70 X 7 Life Recovery and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 124 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 HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
- Who funds HOMECOR ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds PET MI - HOLLAND DBA MOBILITY WORLDWIDE WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CALVARY SCHOOLS OF HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASSKIDS ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Barnabas 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 John and Judy Spoelhof 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.
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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