How much did STEPHEN AND VALERIE SPOELHOF FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of STEPHEN AND VALERIE SPOELHOF FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

churchglobal

2020

hollandchurchministriesglobal

2021

zeelandgoodhollandchurchglobalhopeministries

2022

goodchurchministriesglobalrenew

2023

hope

2024

hope

2025

hollandhoperenew

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k25 grants · $110k
$10k–50k6 grants · $85k

$5,025

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$31,500
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$13,550
FEBC$10,025
BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS$10,000
CARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN CENTER FOR THE DEAF$10,000
BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
OASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD$9,025
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK$9,025
RENEW$8,025
PARTNERS WORLDWIDE$8,025
BALTIC PASTORAL INSTITUTE$6,525
WORLD RENEW$6,025
LUKE SOCIETY$6,025
VELO KIDS$5,500
UNTOLD$5,025

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 50 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%

+20%

Still filing today

36%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationInternationalReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CU
CALVIN UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +1%
U
UNTOLD
9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +172%
PW
PARTNERS WORLDWIDE
9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +0%

Funded once

PH
POTTER'S HOUSE SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $5k
FU
FOUNDATION UKRAINE
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -100%
RC
RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INTL
one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Regent University

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.

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Lifewater Inc

Lifewater International is a non-profit Christian water development organization.

Environment

Christianity Today International

Equipping Christians to renew their minds, serve the church, and create culture to the glory of God

Religion

I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education

World of Opportunity

World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives.

Human Services

Habitat for Missionariesincorporated

To build and rehabilitate homes, with 90% of the profit donated to Christian missionaries or ministries worldwide.

Housing & Shelter

Christs Hope U S a Inc

Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.

Human Services

Hope International University

Empowering students through Christian higher education to serve the Church and world for Christ.

Education

Habitat for Humanity International Inc

Building houses for god's people in need

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Christian Harvest International Min

Christian Harvest International serves to train and teach the church to change their communities, cities, and nations through effective, strategic prayer and to see souls converted to the Christian life.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Calvin University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,825

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

22/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,054,672Education$97,323International$72,144Human Services$57,119Health$52,049Recreation & Sports$14,548Religion$13,500

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of TheMI34.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of The · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Joie de Vivre Foundation · Pat & Herb Eldean Family 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 organisation STEPHEN AND VALERIE SPOELHOF 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOMECOR.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~63 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383281993 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOMECOR, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 63 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

STEPHEN AND VALERIE SPOELHOF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation?

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STEPHEN AND VALERIE SPOELHOF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation?

More from the funding graph