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Slikkers 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
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS | $85,000 |
| CRITTER BARN | $60,000 |
| GREAT LAKES ADVENTIST ACADEMY | $57,500 |
| ODC NETWORK | $35,000 |
| HOLLAND SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST ACADEMY | $19,650 |
| GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| IN DISCIPLESHIP | $10,000 |
| MARANATHA VOLUNTEERS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| EVERGREEN COMMONS | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND | $6,200 |
| DOCTORS IN RECITAL | $5,000 |
| THE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HOLLAND | $5,000 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| WORD INVESTMENTS INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- ONODC NETWORK8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +428%
- CBCRITTER BARN2× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +29%
- GLGREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +580%
Funded once
- HAHOLLAND ADVENTIST ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $54k
- SSSANDPOINT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $12k
- WYWORLD YOUTH GROUPone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -6%
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.
Calvary schools of holland are committed to building christian character and to developing servant leadership in their students within the context of a quality education.
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
To provide christian ministries to youth of the community and make a positive influence on the lives of teenagers.
To help disadvantaged youth transform their lives by providing learning experiences in a fun and safe christian environment, free of charge.
West Michigan Youth for Christ seeks to reach young people everywhere, working with the local church and like-minded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who lead by godly lifestyle, devotion to the Bible and prayer, passion for sharing…
Explore god creates and leverages quality content and media that enables young adults, seekers, and christians to explore god, experience god, and engage in god's plan for their life. using cutting-edge technology, we facilitate spiritual…
A ministry without walls, based in West Michigan, Salt Ministries offers friendship, pastoral care and counseling, preaching, teaching and music for people with special needs or problems. Salt also has relationships with persons or…
Our mission is to educate students with a christ-centered foundation and excellent classical academics while encouraging students to discover their unique godly design, purpose, and calling.
Christian camps.
Equipping minds and hearts to love, learn, and lead for Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach for Recovery Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Youth Group. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 62 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 ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMONS ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS IN RECITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Volunteers International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD YOUTH GROUP ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IN DISCIPLESHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds PET MI - HOLLAND DBA MOBILITY WORLDWIDE WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VELO KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WORD INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG RED 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 · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · Onequest Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · Gentex 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 Slikkers 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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