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Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation at a glance

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Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$686kInternational$166kEducation$126kHealth$86kCommunity Improvement$69kHousing & Shelter$65kYouth Development$29kHuman Services$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
$5,025
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$31,500
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$13,550
FEBC$10,025
BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS$10,000
BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
CARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN CENTER FOR THE DEAF$10,000
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK$9,025
OASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD$9,025
PARTNERS WORLDWIDE$8,025
RENEW$8,025
BALTIC PASTORAL INSTITUTE$6,525
WORLD RENEW$6,025
LUKE SOCIETY$6,025
VELO KIDS$5,500
UNTOLD$5,025
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $1k → 14%BENJAMINS HOPE: $5k → 8%BENJAMINS HOPE: $3k → 8%BENJAMINS HOPE: $2k → 8%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $2k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $4k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
OR
SD
IA
PA
CA
CO
MO
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 52 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
16

Total granted

$1.3M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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

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ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • GC
    GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +135%
  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +6%
  • BB
    BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FU
    FOUNDATION UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
  • RT
    RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -13%
  • AC
    A Christian Ministry in the National Parks
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +22%
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
4
Reformed University Inc

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

Education
5
Harvest Bridge

Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.

Religion
6
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
7
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. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…

Human Services
8
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
9
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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10
Global Outreach Ministries

Global outreach ministries exists to bring transformation to the nations of latin america by training influential leaders, planting relevant churches, and mobilizing christ-followers to transform their communities.

Religion
11
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.

Arts & Culture
12
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Luke Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Quality Affordable Homes. 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

40 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. 40 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PILLAR CHURCH: $156,800 · OtherPILLAR CHURCHTHE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA: $146,094 · OtherTHE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AM…OASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD NFP: $34,572 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $34,072 · OtherWorld Renew: $32,072 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $29,200 · OtherTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $26,072 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE: $25,072 · OtherFEBC: $25,072 · OtherGLOBAL LEADERSHIP: $25,025 · Other+34 more: $202,982 · Other+34 moreGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $142,272 · ReligionGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT C…BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL: $63,771 · ReligionBRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNA…MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $32,548 · ReligionMULTIPLICATION NETWORK …FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $17,000 · ReligionFAR EAST BROADCASTING C…Resourcing Christian Education International: $11,500 · Religion+3 more: $14,000 · ReligionCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $78,073 · EducationCALVIN UNI…The Potters House: $24,000 · EducationThe Potter…WHEATON ACADEMY: $11,000 · EducationWHEATON AC…Living Stones Academy: $8,250 · EducationLiving Sto…+1 more: $4,000 · EducationUntold Inc: $52,049 · HealthCARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN CENTRE FOR THE DEAF: $20,047 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $51,572 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $15,572 · InternationalFOUNDATION UKRAINE: $5,000 · InternationalVOX UNITED: $16,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $13,072 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN'S HOPE: $12,047 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $11,000 · Human ServicesRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesODC NETWORK: $14,549 · Animals
Other$737,033Religion$281,091Education$125,323Health$74,096International$72,144Human Services$57,119Animals$14,549

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $142,272 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $78,073 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL: $63,771 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetUntold Inc: $52,049 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $51,572 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD NFP: $34,572 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $32,548 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Renew: $32,072 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $26,072 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE: $25,072 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potters House: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN CENTRE FOR THE DEAF: $20,047 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $17,049 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOX UNITED: $16,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $15,572 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetODC NETWORK: $14,549 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVELO KIDS INC: $14,548 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $13,072 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHOMECOR: $12,572 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE: $12,047 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetResourcing Christian Education International: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHEATON ACADEMY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $10,047 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Stones Academy: $8,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEVANGELICAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSociety for Christian Instruction Zeeland: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Christian Ministry in the National Parks: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAGGIES MISSION CAFE: $3,025 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren Waiting Everywhere Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Untold Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds OASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD NFP ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds World Renew ↗
  • Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds The Potters House ↗
  • Who funds CARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN CENTRE FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds VOX UNITED ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds VELO KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMECOR ↗
  • Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
  • Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
  • Who funds Living Stones Academy ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…John and Judy Spoelho…Edgar and Elsa Prince…Barnabas FoundationJim and Ginger Jurrie…Craig and Wendy Spoel…Douglas & Sandra Deko…Dick and Betsy Devos …Christian Community F…Grand Haven Area Comm…Raymond James Charita…Howard Miller Foundat…
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area IncMI46× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Craig and Wendy Spoelhof Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Howard Miller 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 Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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 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 70 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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