· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| THE MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RESTHAVEN | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Scott and Janet Spoelhof Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott and Janet Spoelhof Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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