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Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family 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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,300,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$84M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$3.7M10%
FY202317$3.4M0%
FY202217$3.2M6%
FY202114$3.0M21%
FY202018$3.1M17%
FY201924$4.3M29%
FY201817$2.9M29%
FY201713$5.2Mn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$24MReligion$3.0MYouth Development$325kHuman Services$205kHealth$75kPublic Benefit$75kCommunity Improvement$55kCivil Rights$44kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
OR
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southwest Christian High School Inc$9,500,000820%
Dordt University$7,814,00082%
Hope Academy Inc$4,171,000817%
Museum of the Bible$1,150,00050%
Summit Ministries Inc$1,050,00083%
Prager University Foundation$1,025,00070%
Young America's Foundation$325,00070%
New Life Family Services$205,00036%
Covenant Knights School$200,00031%
Hollandale Christian School$180,00086%
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All grantees of Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southwest Christian High School Inc$9,500,000820%
Dordt University$7,814,00082%
Hope Academy Inc$4,171,000817%
Museum of the Bible$1,150,00050%
Summit Ministries Inc$1,050,00083%
Prager University Foundation$1,025,00070%
Young America's Foundation$325,00070%
New Life Family Services$205,00036%
Covenant Knights School$200,00031%
Hollandale Christian School$180,00086%
Lamplighters International$155,00087%
Truth Encounter Ministries$150,000113%
Luis Palau Association$140,00050%
Scottsdale Bible Church$100,0002n/a
Cardus Inc$55,00024%
David Horowitz Freedom Center$44,00020%
The Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America$25,0001n/a
Albert Lea Healthcare Coalition$25,00011%
Lafayette Parish Assoc of Educators$25,0001n/a
Deer Creek Christian School$15,00011%
Wickenburg Christian Academy Inc$5,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthwest Christian High School Inc: $9,500,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetDordt University: $7,814,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetHope Academy Inc: $4,171,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetMuseum of the Bible: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSummit Ministries Inc: $1,050,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $1,025,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $325,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNew Life Family Services: $205,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCovenant Knights School: $200,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHollandale Christian School: $180,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetLamplighters International: $155,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetTruth Encounter Ministries: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $140,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCardus Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetDavid Horowitz Freedom Center: $44,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlbert Lea Healthcare Coalition: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDeer Creek Christian School: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWickenburg Christian Academy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Servant FoundationKS13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation?

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About Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation

How much does Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation give?
Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $3,745,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (84%), Religion (10%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southwest Christian High School Inc ($9.5M), Dordt University ($7.8M), Hope Academy Inc ($4.2M).
Does Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation based?
Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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