· Private foundation
Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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: 72% of MARVIN G & JERENE L DEWITT 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k26 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
- $250k+1 grant · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $257,500 |
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $103,750 |
| REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA | $60,750 |
| BORCULO CHRISTAN SCHOOL | $42,000 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $32,000 |
| FAMILY TALK | $30,000 |
| PART SYNOD MI RCA CRAN HILL RA | $30,000 |
| GRAND HAVEN AREA COMM FOUND | $25,000 |
| UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $23,000 |
| ZEELAND SOCIETY FOR CHR INSTR | $22,000 |
| GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $21,750 |
| AMERICAN VALUES | $21,000 |
| WINNING AT HOME | $20,000 |
| ASSOC FOR MORE JUST SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| KEYS FOR KIDS MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
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, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 32 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +54%
- GCGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $273k · revenue +135%
- GAGRACE ADVENTURES5× · 2017–2021 · $181k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $263k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -54%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
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.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.
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.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
BCW provides a research-based approach to creating flourishing, Christian-led workplaces. BCW achieves this through its employee engagement survey, its "Road to Flourishing" consulting model, and its database which holds extensive,…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prison Fellowship Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 109 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 NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BORCULO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
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: De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Onequest Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jim and Ginger Jurries 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 Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt 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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