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Speerstra Peter & Evelyn at a glance

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Speerstra Peter & Evelyn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$76kYouth Development$5kHealth$3kScience & Tech$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $600 → 8%GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIV: $600 → 8%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $600 → 9%HOPE COLLEGE: $500 → 10%AQUINAS COLLEGE: $600 → 11%NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $550 → 11%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $600 → 12%ALMA COLLEGE: $600 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $600 → 14%SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $600 → 14%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $700 → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $600 → 16%SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $550 → 18%CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $600 → 19%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $600 → 20%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $700 → 17%CARTHAGE COLLEGE: $600 → 10%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $500 → 10%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $10k → 15%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $600 → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $550 → 8%GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIV: $600 → 8%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $600 → 9%AQUINAS COLLEGE: $550 → 11%NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 11%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 14%SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $700 → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 18%CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $600 → 19%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $10k → 15%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $600 → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $550 → 8%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $550 → 9%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $10k → 15%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $550 → 9%CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $600 → 19%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $550 → 9%GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $700 → 11%CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $600 → 19%DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $700 → 11%EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $600 → 14%GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $600 → 11%GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $600 → 11%GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $550 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61k · 14 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
30

Total granted

$61k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+6%

Still filing today

43%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +202%
  • HC
    HOPE COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MT
    MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $850
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $850
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Wabash College

Wabash college is a liberal arts college for men that educates them to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
6
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
7
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope College; the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $3,400 · OtherCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,950 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGEGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,750 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Michigan: $2,600 · OtherUniversity of MichiganSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,150 · OtherNORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $1,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,550 · OtherMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $1,400 · Other+27 more: $22,000 · Other+27 moreTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $30,025 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESHOPE COLLEGE: $2,150 · EducationHOPE COLLEGEAquinas College: $2,150 · EducationAquinas CollegeDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $1,700 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,650 · Education+4 more: $2,400 · Education+4 moreBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $5,350 · Youth Development
Other$40,350Education$40,075Youth Development$5,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $30,025 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,950 over 4y, 10% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $2,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAquinas College: $2,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALMA COLLEGE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Aquinas College ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗

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.

Kanitz Louis J & Gold…Fred & Florence Dengl…The VombergTrumley Fo…Myer & Lois Franklin …The Gerber FoundationThe Community Foundat…Grand Rapids Communit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main AcMO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main Ac · Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fund · The VombergTrumley Foundation · Myer & Lois Franklin Charitable Tr · The Gerber Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Speerstra Peter & Evelyn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Speerstra Peter & Evelyn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Speerstra Peter & Evelyn?

Find your warmest path to Speerstra Peter & Evelyn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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