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Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$867k
Granted FY2023
46
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$258k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$5.4MEducation$2.2MHuman Services$694kArts & Culture$469kHealth$416kAnimals$354kInternational$297kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0
02FY2023 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k26 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $362k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
  • $250k+1 grant · $258k
$6,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PART SYNOD MI RCA CRAN HILL RA$30,000
FAMILY TALK$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
ASSOC FOR MORE JUST SOCIETY$20,000
WINNING AT HOME$20,000
KEYS FOR KIDS MINISTRIES$18,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $30k → 10%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $30k → 10%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $25k → 10%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $20k → 10%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $20k → 10%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $35k → 11%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $10k → 10%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $30k → 11%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $25k → 11%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $25k → 11%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $5k → 8%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $5k → 10%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $12k → 11%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $3k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $2k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 8%RESILIENCE ADVOCARES FR ENDING: $1k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $1k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $13k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $9k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $7k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $6k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $6k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $5k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
NC
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 72 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
31

Total granted

$9.4M
$751k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+4%

Still filing today

39%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +54%
  • GC
    GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $273k · revenue +135%
  • GA
    GRACE ADVENTURES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $181k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $263k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -54%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
Probe Ministries International

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…

Religion
4
Arborbrook Christian Academy

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.

Education
5
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
6
Cedar Lake Ministries

Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.

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7
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
8
Youth Conference Ministries Inc

To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.

Youth Development
9
Biblical Counseling and Training Ministries

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.

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10
North America Bible Institute

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…

Education
11
Best Christian Workplaces Institute

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,…

Religion
12
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prison Fellowship Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENERAL SYNOD COUNCIL OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA: $1,711,750 · OtherGENERAL SYNOD COUNCIL OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICAPART SYNOD MI RCA CRAN HILL RA: $677,000 · OtherPART SYNOD MI RCA CRAN HILL RAMISSION INDIA: $501,000 · OtherMISSION INDIAWESTERN SEMINARY: $428,000 · OtherWESTERN SEMINARYCOMMUNITY REFORMED CHURCH: $355,000 · OtherWINNING AT HOME: $332,000 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $321,999 · OtherNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $263,000 · Other+77 more: $2,811,650 · Other+77 moreNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $1,299,500 · EducationNORTHWESTERN CO…VALOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $83,000 · EducationVALOR CHRISTIAN…+2 more: $38,050 · EducationGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $272,750 · ReligionKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $60,000 · ReligionDr James Dobson Family Institute: $35,000 · ReligionBARNABAS MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Religion+4 more: $34,000 · ReligionHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $127,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BARN: $50,750 · Human Services+3 more: $19,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $165,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL AID INC: $70,000 · InternationalRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalGRACE ADVENTURES: $181,000 · Recreation & SportsODC NETWORK: $150,000 · Animals
Other$7,401,399Education$1,420,550Religion$416,750Human Services$336,750International$295,000Recreation & Sports$181,000Animals$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $1,299,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $272,750 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetGRACE ADVENTURES: $181,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $165,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetODC NETWORK: $150,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $127,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBORCULO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $104,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetVALOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $83,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AID INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCRITTER BARN: $50,750 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES: $21,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAKESHORE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC COUNSELING: $19,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBARNABAS MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE: $11,375 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEndurance with Jan & Dave Dravecky: $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES: $10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKids Hope USA: $5,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN FAMILY FORUM: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOttawa County Farm Bureau: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ODC NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

De Witt Families Cond…The Community Foundat…Edgar and Elsa Prince…Barnabas FoundationMerle & Sheri Dewitt …Grand Haven Area Comm…Onequest FoundationDouglas & Sandra Deko…John and Judy Spoelho…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Raymond James Charita…Jim and Ginger Jurrie…
De Witt Families Conduit FoundationMI55.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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