· Private foundation
Steven and Kathryn Bandstra 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 $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MUSKEGON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| PATHFINDERS | $5,000 |
| READ MUSKEGON | $5,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CENTER | $3,000 |
| BRIDGE MICHIGAN | $2,500 |
| LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES | $2,500 |
| REACH FOR RECOVERY | $2,500 |
| MOSAIC COUNSELING | $2,500 |
| MOMENTUM CENTER - GRAND HAVEN | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY- MUSKEGON | $1,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FFFATHER FRED FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +15%
- GHGrand Haven Christian School6× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +607%
- MCMuskegon Christian School4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- MFMARY FREE BED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $45k
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- RHREETHS-PUFFER HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Developing inclusive communities and meaningful connections through employment and training.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Creating healthy communities - together
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Muskegon County and the most unlike its peers is Mona Lake Improvement Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grand Haven Christian School ↗
- Who funds Muskegon Christian School ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS OF MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S DIVISION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Folkert Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Baird Foundation Inc · Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund · Greater Ottawa County United Way · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Kathryn Bandstra 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.