· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORDT COLLEGE | $1,300,000 |
| SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $600,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOPE FARMS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE COVENANT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SUMMIT MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| CHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| GRACE BIBLE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| REAGAN INTERNATIONAL IMPACT PROJECT | $25,000 |
| LAMPLIGHTERS INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of your 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 +58% since the first grant, against -75% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +66%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +240%
- SMSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
Funded once
- TETruth Encounter Ministriesone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -75%
- ALALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -93%
- LPLA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Education - private christian school grades k-12
Christian day school
To provide an educational program which upholds high standards of scholastic and behavioral excellence and furnishes instruction in bible-based christian faith. it is our greatest honor to enable students to develop a christian world view…
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
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.
Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Albert Lea Healthcare Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 34 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 SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Covenant Knights School ↗
- Who funds HOLLANDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAMPLIGHTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Truth Encounter Ministries ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds CARDUS INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITION ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE PARISH ASSOC OF EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wickenburg Christian Academy Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Sid and Carol Verdoorn Family 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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