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Rev Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOURNEY ACADEMY GRAND RAPIDS | $80,000 |
| THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| ADA TOWNSHIP | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN MOMENT INC | $20,000 |
| KEYSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MACATAWA BAY JUNIOR ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| STUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ACTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND LIBERTY | $5,000 |
| SCHOOL OF MISSIONARY AVIATION TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CHAPEL | $1,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KENT COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE ORANGE CRUSHERS | $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 (FY20–23, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TCTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +112%
- MBMACATAWA BAY JUNIOR ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +96%
- AMAmerican Moment Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MSMontessori Society of Greater Grand Rapidsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +96%
- ARAMERICAN REFORMERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +89%
- LNLibertas Networkgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +60%
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
To plan, conduct, coordinate, supervise, and finance activities that promote the well-being of the private, independent, nonprofit institutions of higher education in Michigan.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
To educate the public on issues concerning fiscal responsibility, economic freedom, and the elimination of coercive and compulsory policies; promote these issues; and support legislative changes to embrace these issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 38 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 THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds MACATAWA BAY JUNIOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds ARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS DOWNTOWN MARKET EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REFORMER ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS IN GRAND RAPID ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds STUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF MISSIONARY AVIATION TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teneo Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS BALLET ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds VELO KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPCYCLE BIKES ↗
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: Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Frey Foundation · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way
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 Rev 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.
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