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Scheb 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $85,000 |
| YAHWEH WARRIOR LODGE INC | $75,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS | $35,000 |
| ROOAHK FILMS | $25,000 |
| CALVARY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $20,000 |
| THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NATH - FREDERICK PLACE | $9,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH CAMPUS MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| NEW DAWN PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $181k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +7%
- AGAlpha Grand Rapids4× · 2022–2025 · $103k · revenue +76%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- HOHOUSE OF PRAYER BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AMAFFINITY MENTORINGone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +9%
- ACADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -26%
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.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
We intend to focus with grace on the building of individual strengths in students, teaching and imparting strategies, tools and skills, in order to create lifelong learners.we will meet students and families where they are at in life and…
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…
To assist parents in developing their children to be strong in mind, spirit, and body, using christ as their example and teaching the principles found in god's holy word, the bible.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
As a ministry of first baptist church centerton, life way christian school will enter into a parternship with christian families in order to equip young people with a biblical worldview so that they can engage the culture in a way that…
To educate students in a biblical worldview, to high academic standards, with good character, as preparation to live victorious lives as christian adults.
A christian ministry providing vibrant living, diverse programs of outreach and compassionate care
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Hope Academy and the most unlike its peers is Early Bird Books. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 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 HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Alpha Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PRAYER BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFESOURCE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds AFFINITY MENTORING ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STAND TO REASON ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds Early Bird Books ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
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 · Ufp Industries Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Scheb 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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