· Private foundation
John Dykema & Michele Maly-Dykema Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of JOHN DYKEMA & MICHELE MALY-DYKEMA FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $221k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH W MI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES | $5,000 |
| KILLGOAR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL POLICE DEFENSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARCO ISLAND NATURE PRESERVE | $5,000 |
| THE MOMENTUM CENTER | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MILAN'S MIRACLE FUND | $5,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA W MI FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT MISSION | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +41%
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +59%
- UOUniversity of Miami6× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ICICC CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- COCITY OF MARCO ISLANDone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 114 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 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COUNTRY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MILAN'S MIRACLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE KILLGOAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marco Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE DEFENSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED GRACE ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Island Country Club Charitable Foundation · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · WK Kellogg 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 Dykema & Michele Maly-Dykema Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Ymca of Collier County — 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.