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Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund
The corporation is organized to support the grand haven area community foundation and will support the greatest needs of the west michigan region including support to positively impact ottawa county and muskegon county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRI-CITIES FAMILY YMCA | $100,000 |
| READ MUSKEGON | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNVIERSITY | $25,000 |
| OTTAWA AREA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $21,573 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE | $20,200 |
| TRI CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
To minister to the physical, emotional and spirtual needs of people within the muskegon area, without regard to race, creed, color or religious affiliation.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.
The mission of michigan community capital is to facilitate low-income community investment in michigan. these investments will spur job creation and economic growth in low income communities across the state.
Muskegon civic theatre is a voluntary organization to provide quality community theatrical experience by and for adults and chlidren through a variety of local productions and education opportunities in all elements of theater in the…
The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.
Promote social welfare, bring community together, promote community as a whole and combat neighborhood deterioration by creating incentive to invest in the community. also, to support educational programs on community development and the…
Developing inclusive communities and meaningful connections through employment and training.
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
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…
Provide a home for the elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Muskegon County and the most unlike its peers is Out Side in Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI-CITIES MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds OUT SIDE IN INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED GRACE ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CENTER 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: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Frey Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Steven and Kathryn Bandstra Foundation · Folkert Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund 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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