· Private foundation
Rainbow Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $274k
- $250k+1 grant · $801k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $801,032 |
| CAMP ROGER | $101,082 |
| KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $90,037 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $83,056 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $25,021 |
| WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k 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 UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $916k · revenue +6%
- LCLUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $28k · revenue +47%
- KCKALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OUOpportunities Unlimited for the Blind Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +83%
- SLSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -32%
- GHGrand Haven Christian Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +502%
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.
Equipping students to serve and glorify God. GCCS offers a Christ-centered education that is grounded in faith, connected through relationships, committed to excellence and prepared for service.
Great lakes christian college, an institution of higher education affiliated with christian churches/churches of christ, seeks to glorify god by preparing students to be servant-leaders in the church and world.
Avail provides quality K-12 education, which integrates a Christian worldview in supporting parents and partnering with churches to nurture students as disciples of Christ
The school provides scripture classes from a Roman Catholic prospective.
To partner with christian parents to "train young champions for christ - spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally, and physically."
The organization exists to provide a biblically centered educational environment so that its students may be equipped to become christ honoring members of their families, churches, and communities.
Provide an exemplary christ-centered education equipping students with truths, knowledge, skills and values that advance the pursuit of god's purpose for their lives.
To provide excellence in classical christ-centered education, working together with the students' homes, in order to develop within each student the ability to reason biblically while encouraging a desire to savor god and to serve both god…
Columbia christian schools seeks to provide a christ-centered education focused on excellence in faith, character and academics to students in preschool through 12th grade.
Calvary baptist school exists to educate students with a biblical worldview and support families as they train up their children in truth, all to the glory of god.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
The Christian School Association of Ann Arbor, dba Ann Arbor Christian School, provides Preschool through 10th grade education with a Christian focus to approximately 264 students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is Specialized Language Development Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 CAMP ROGER ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Opportunities Unlimited for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Grand Haven Christian School ↗
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 · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Rainbow 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.