· Private foundation
Paul B Henry Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| GVSU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER | $1,500 |
| MIGRANT LEGAL AID | $1,000 |
| IMMIGRATION LAW AND JUSTICE MI | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB | $1,000 |
| GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FDN | $1,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $845 |
| DEGAGE MINISTRIES | $845 |
| GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Paul B Henry Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +11% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +2%
- SCST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +38%
- MLMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC5× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -7%
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION LAW & JUSTICE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Wege 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 Paul B Henry 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.