· Private foundation
Jonathan & Mary Kay Borisch 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SET FREE MINISTRIES | $400,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $400,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $250,000 |
| DUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| CAMP QUALITY MICHIGAN | $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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- DCDUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +100%
- LILIFE INTERNATIONAL6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +91%
- SFSET FREE MINISTRIES3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- GLGreat Lakes Center for the Artsone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -26%
- SCSOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +31%
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +7%
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.
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.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
To help believers who are in need of spiritual, mental, emotional and relational healing experience intimacy with God and one another.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
None
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Gospel mission
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Set Free Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The Tracy Hanson Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 DUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds Barnabas Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP QUALITY USA INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge Street House of Prayer ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Tracy Hanson Initiative ↗
- Who funds SPA INC ↗
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: Dayenu Foundation Trust · Buist Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Jonathan & Mary Kay Borisch 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 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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