· Private foundation
Mojo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $586k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $678k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,250,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP | $700,000 |
| NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $500,000 |
| PARKVIEW CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $200,000 |
| HOMES FOR HOPE | $125,000 |
| GENERAL BOARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $103,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS | $100,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS | $50,000 |
| MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $50,000 |
| I LIKE GIVING | $50,000 |
| RIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN - EDUCATIONAL FUND | $35,000 |
| WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $35,000 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $35,000 |
| ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES | $30,000 |
| GRACES TABLE | $26,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% 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.
56 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- ONOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +252%
- NCNORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS6× · 2019–2024 · $561k · revenue +145%
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2023 · $445k · revenue +141%
Funded once
HOPE INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +140%- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDSone grant, 2018 · $45k
- LPLuis Palau Associationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +54%
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.
We provide furniture and home goods to families and individuals that financially qualify for our program. our current focus area is harford county, maryland but are happy to give referrals to resources in other counties when possible.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
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…
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…
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Wellspring provides a discipleship model for individuals and churches to engage as a part of their overall spiritual development. this is done through retreat and small group experiences and through equipping churches and organizations to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 70 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 OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN EDUC FUND ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE THERAPY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITECAPS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Streams of Hope ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS ↗
- Who funds KENTWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINK INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE'S TABLE ↗
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 Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Barnabas Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen 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 Mojo 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.