· Private foundation
Scott and Janet Spoelhof 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 $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $105,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $35,000 |
| POTTERS HOUSE | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $30,000 |
| GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $16,666 |
| BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS | $15,000 |
| THE MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RESTHAVEN | $10,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLAND ZEELAND | $9,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NOORTHOEK ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| PILLAR CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- HCHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY5× · 2017–2025 · $359k · revenue +85%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +554%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- HHAND2HANDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +38%
- WCWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +83%
- FIFacilitators International Incorporatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -52%
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.
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Bmw Car Club of America Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 40 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 HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Resthaven ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING HOPE MYANMAR INC ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Facilitators International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds NOORTHOEK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MISSION PARTNERS INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds BMW CAR CLUB OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof 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 Scott and Janet Spoelhof 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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