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Larry and Karen Mulder 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.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$1.5MEnvironment$1.1MInternational$573kHuman Services$447kCrime & Legal$364kHousing & Shelter$285kEducation$176kReligion$127kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HOLLAND$50,000
JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC$50,000
COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE$30,000
HOPE CHURCH$27,000
ECHO$25,000
RESILIENCE$20,000
ESCAPE YFCK$15,000
I AM ACADEMY$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLANDZEELAND AREA$15,000
TREETOPS COLLECTIVE$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS$10,000
GENEVA CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER$10,000
KIDS FOOD BASKET$10,000
MISSION PARTNERS INDIA$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $389k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW STORY: $10k → 10%EVERGREEN COMMONS: $75k → 10%TREETOPS COLLECTIVE: $10k → 11%JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 10%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%RESILIENCE: $20k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 10%THE STOREHOUSE: $5k → 11%RESILIENCE: $20k → 8%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%RESILIENCE: $20k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $15k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $10k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $10k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $5k → 8%RESILIENCE: $5k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $4k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%CAMP SUNSHINE: $5k → 10%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%CAMP SUNSHINE: $5k → 10%CAMP SUNSHINE: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 44 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
38

Total granted

$4.3M
$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+30%

Still filing today

80%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +7% · 28% of their budget
  • ON
    ODC NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +428%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • AT
    APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +97%
  • EC
    EVERGREEN COMMONSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +55%
  • DB
    DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S
    one grant, 2017 · $73k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
2
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
3
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
4
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
5
Possibilities Africa

To mobilize and equip christians to become agents of spiritual and socio-economic transformation in africa.

International
6
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
7
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
8
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
9
Chariots for Hope Inc

Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…

International
10
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
11
Children's HopeChest

Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.

International
12
Hope Unlimited

Hope Unlimited inspires hope and renews lives in Kenya and Cameroon by providing access to quality healthcare, clean water, education, economic development and Christian resources for spiritual growth.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Innocent. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…At-Risk Youth MentoringSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Christian Youth CampsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Food Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr14%38%35–55yr18%14%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,789

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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $1,060,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN R…I AM ACADEMY — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentHaiti Foundation Against Poverty — $59,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW CITY KIDS INC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentELE'S PLACE INC — $47,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HOLLAND — $351,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HOLL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $99,150 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S — $72,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE — $70,000 · OtherRESTHAVEN CARE COMMUNITY — $61,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC — $60,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLANZEELAND — $59,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCYTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC — $64,000 · OtherKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $60,000 · Other+43 more — $520,500 · Other+43 moreODC NETWORK — $1,050,000 · AnimalsODC NETWORKECHO Inc — $115,000 · InternationalECHO IncWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $115,000 · InternationalWORLD RELI…WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $93,600 · InternationalWATER MISS…SOLAR SISTER INC — $75,000 · InternationalSOLAR SIST…MANY HOPES INC — $25,000 · InternationalMANY HOPES…FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $20,000 · International+3 more — $11,500 · InternationalRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE — $85,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES — $80,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN COMMONS — $75,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN'S HOPE — $24,400 · Human Services+5 more — $44,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterSILOAM MISSIONARY HOMES — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterBridge Street House of Prayer — $50,000 · ReligionGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER — $45,478 · ReligionMISSION PARTNERS INDIA INC — $35,000 · Religion
Youth Development$1,312,000Other$1,517,150Animals$1,050,000International$455,100Human Services$388,900Housing & Shelter$145,000Religion$130,478

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $1,060,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetODC NETWORK — $1,050,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $120,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetECHO Inc — $115,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $93,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE — $85,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMONS — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOLAR SISTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S — $72,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC — $64,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetI AM ACADEMY — $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHaiti Foundation Against Poverty — $59,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBridge Street House of Prayer — $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC — $47,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER — $45,478 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION PARTNERS INDIA INC — $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL — $34,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAFFINITY MENTORING — $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetEscape YFGK — $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSILOAM MISSIONARY HOMES — $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMANY HOPES INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE — $24,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUntold Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKESHORE NONPROFIT ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCULTUREWORKS — $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEXT STEP OF WEST MICHIGAN — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE — $12,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Tiny News Collective Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW STORY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHESE NUMBERS HAVE FACES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINCHILD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWIDOW CONNECTION INC — $6,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Shine FoundationGrand Rapids Communit…Grand Haven Area Comm…John and Judy Spoelho…Heart of West Michiga…Frey FoundationHoward Miller Foundat…Douglas & Sandra Deko…De Witt Families Cond…Cdv5 FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area IncMI59.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Shine Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Frey Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family 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 Larry and Karen Mulder 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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