· Private foundation
Pat & Herb Eldean Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES | $12,850 |
| EVERGREEN COMMONS | $1,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOLLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $700 |
| RESILIENCE (WOMEN IN TRANSITION) | $600 |
| NPR WGVU PUBLIC MEDIA | $500 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| CORPUS CHRISTIE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CORPUS CHRISTIE SCHOOL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $480 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $400 |
| HOLLAND MUSEUM | $300 |
| BENJAMIN'S HOPE | $200 |
| HOPE COLLEGE - CASA | $200 |
| HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $200 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +177%
- ECEVERGREEN COMMONS3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +68%
- HMHOLLAND MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HCHOPE COLLEGE - HASPone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SFSAINT FRANCISone grant, 2020 · $2k
- OSOUR SHEPHERDS OUR FUTUREone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
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…
Habitat for humanity - grand traverse region is an ecumenical christian housing ministry. the organization works in partnership with people to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing. habitat challenges…
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Benton habitat for humanity is a countywide ecumenical ministry that seeks to eliminate substandard housing and to make decent shelter a matter of action and conscience by having people from all income levels work together.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
Habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an affiliate of the americus-based habitat for humanity international. habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to…
Offers a new hope for comfortable,peaceful and dignified end of life while focusing on patient's goals and wishes at all times.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 70 X 7 Life Recovery and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Immigrant Advocates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 58 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 COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
- Who funds PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOLLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Howard Miller Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · The Shine Foundation · Edward H & Diana H Marsilje Charitable Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Grand Rapids Community 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 Pat & Herb Eldean 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.