· Private foundation
Press on 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SET FREE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW LIFE MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| GRAND HAVEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| ACROSS MY HEART MINISTRIES | $600 |
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 (FY22–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSET FREE MINISTRIES4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +34%
- IPINTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +2%
- GHGrand Haven Christian School4× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +407%
Funded once
- RCRESLIFE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- BCBALDWIN COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $7k
- GAGOSPEL AND GRAIN INCone grant, 2017 · $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.
Urban Family Ministries exists to strengthen families and change lives by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the urban core of Grand Rapids through relational, spiritual and economic empowerment.
New Perspective Ministry is a faith-based Christian non-profit ministry dedicated to empowering families to experience restoration and healing in Christ by equipping church leaders.The mission of New Perspective Ministries arises out of…
Proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide
Religious
Biblical counseling
Christian evangelism
To reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ministry in Malawi, Africa
Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Broken But Not Shattered is an outreach ministry with the vision to teach and train Gods people to live a surrendered life for the Lord, so they can do the Greater works that Jesus came to display. Matthew 9:27 reads, The harvest is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Set Free Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Grand Haven Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds Grand Haven Christian School ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL AND GRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PROMISE ↗
- Who funds SpringHill Camps ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Press on 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.