· Private foundation
Steven and Elaine Bossenbroek Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTOR ME | $7,500 |
| RIDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN REF CHURCH | $3,000 |
| KENT COUNTY FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,500 |
| EXALTA HEALTH | $1,500 |
| RESONATE GLOBAL MISSION | $500 |
| TRUTH FOR LIFE | $194 |
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 (FY17–19, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SFSET FREE MINISTRIES2× · 2018–2019 · $65k · revenue +71%
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +30%
- ASAUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- PWPARTNERS WORLDWIDEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +30%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +24%
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.
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…
CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…
Training & certification of christian biblical counselors
To provide spiritual direction, spiritual formation opportunities and related ministry to individuals seeking greater development in their christian faith, to serve as a resource for churches and organizations in the area of spiritual…
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Christian Teaching and Education
Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.
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…
The mission of dakota christian school is to assist parents by providing education based on a biblical worldview, thereby enabling children to grow in christian wisdom, to nurture godly character, and to serve christ as lord.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Set Free Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Rescue One Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 RESCUE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUNSET LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MENTORME ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grandville Calvin Christian Schools ↗
- Who funds MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds 70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Steven and Elaine Bossenbroek 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.