How much does Paul B Henry Foundation give?

Paul B Henry Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $11,690 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Paul B Henry Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Employment (26%), Arts & Culture (18%).

Who are Paul B Henry Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Calvin University ($17k), St Cecilia Music Center ($9k), Migrant Legal Aid Inc ($3k).

Does Paul B Henry Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Paul B Henry Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Paul B Henry Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation, The Meijer Foundation.

Where is Paul B Henry Foundation based?

Paul B Henry Foundation is based in MI.

Paul B Henry Foundation

Paul B Henry Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Paul B Henry Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$19kEmployment$19kArts & Culture$13kHuman Services$5kCrime & Legal$4kReligion$3kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$212k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CALVIN COLLEGE	$2,000
GVSU FOUNDATION	$2,000
ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER	$1,500
MIGRANT LEGAL AID	$1,000
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FDN	$1,000
IMMIGRATION LAW AND JUSTICE MI	$1,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB	$1,000
SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES	$845
DEGAGE MINISTRIES	$845
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM	$500

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Paul B Henry Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 74%.

Paul B Henry Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$64k · 17 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$64k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

-4%

Still filing today

65%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

CU
CALVIN UNIVERSITY
8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +2%
SC
ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER
7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +38%
ML
MIGRANT LEGAL AID INC
5× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +11%

Funded once

FA
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -7%
GV
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $2k
BC
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
one grant, 2023 · $500

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.

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment

Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.

Food & Nutrition

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Broadway Grand Rapids

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…

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Common Good Iowa

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.

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Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries; 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.

05the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

9/16

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$35,460Education$17,775Arts & Culture$9,950Human Services$3,345Housing & Shelter$2,995Crime & Legal$1,100Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

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.

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paul B Henry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul B Henry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home