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Joie de Vivre 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ZEELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| MARANATHA BIBLE AND MISSIONARY CONFERENCE INC | $5,000 |
| LAKOTA EAST HIGH SCHOOL | $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 (FY17–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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 +87% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- WTWALKING THE TEXT2× · 2018–2023 · $105k · revenue +577%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES3× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +87%
- ALAUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP INC3× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- LHLAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +37%
- NLNEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CCCHRISTS CHURCH OF THE VALLEY INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational 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.
We exist to equip and train the Christian community and those in vocational ministry to effectively handle the pressures, circumstances and relationships of life. This is accomplished through conferences, workshops, training, discipleship,…
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Providing christ-centered, relationship-oriented consultations and leadership development resources for leaders of churches, businesses, and non-profit organizations.
Our vision is for churches and Christian organizations to be filled with leaders who place spiritual formation, discernment, and renewal above all other leadership priorities. Our mission is to cultivate vibrant spirituality and attentive…
To support and sustain Christian Education in West Michigan by promoting and financially supporting Christian schools in the Muskegon and Grand Haven Michigan area.
This organization exists to restore men and women to live from their heart - as God's intimate allies - by recovering the treasure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, entrusting that message to the people who have been transformed by it, and to…
Reflective Life Ministries encourages, inspires, aids people around the world through Bible studies, Christian books, speaking engagements, retreats conferences, original film productions, marriage seminars, more.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 70 X 7 Life Recovery and the most unlike its peers is Team Be Better. 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 28 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 38 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 LAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING THE TEXT ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEE STROBEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION CREATE ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVING BIBLE TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Joy To The World Foundation ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMECOR ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf ↗
- Who funds Team Be Better ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
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: John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Howard Miller Foundation · Onequest Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Joie de Vivre 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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