· Private foundation
Stewart and Lenore Kniff Family Foundati
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $715k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $705k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND HOME | $130,000 |
| MISSION INDIA | $100,000 |
| SEVENTH REFORMED CHURCH | $75,000 |
| FAITH HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| DSC GREAT LAKES REGIONAL SPORTING CLUB | $50,000 |
| LAMONT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY | $50,000 |
| HUNT 2 HEAL | $50,000 |
| SET FREE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| NEW HORIZON PRIVATE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| EQUEST CENTER FOR THERAPUTIC RIDING | $25,000 |
| JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $969k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- HHHolland Home7× · 2017–2025 · $775k · revenue +43%
- DHDAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES5× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +60%
- HHUNT2HEAL2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +28% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- MMARANATHAone grant, 2017 · $165k
- CHCRAN HILLone grant, 2023 · $6k
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGEone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -4%
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.
To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…
Gospel mission
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
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For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
To run a religious adult home
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.
Christian ministry
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is David's House Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Mackenzie's Animal Sanctuary Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 55 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 Holland Home ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HUNT2HEAL ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf ↗
- Who funds MATTHEWS HOUSE CHRISTIAN THRIFT STORE ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA REFORMED SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOMES GIVING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
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 Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · John Bouma Sr and Sharon K Bouma Foundation · Weller Family Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Mercantile Bank 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 Stewart and Lenore Kniff Family Foundati 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.