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Take His Hand 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 $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $171k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR HOPE ASSOCIATION | $101,000 |
| CROSSROADS BIBLE CHURCH | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY TENNIS | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL HOPE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA - WEST MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW CITY KIDS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UNKNOWN NATIONS | $15,000 |
| CHRIST LIFE MISSIONS | $15,000 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS BIBLE CHURCH | $12,000 |
| MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +73% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- WMWest Michigan Community Tennis Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue ×46 · 68% of their budget
- OHOur Hope Association8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +277%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue ×103
Funded once
- STSTAND TOGETHER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS &one grant, 2019 · $8k
- HIHorizons Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +32%
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Wellspring provides a discipleship model for individuals and churches to engage as a part of their overall spiritual development. this is done through retreat and small group experiences and through equipping churches and organizations to…
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
Free worldwide distribution of christian literature
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
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…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Living with Power Ministries. 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.
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 26 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 53 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 West Michigan Community Tennis Inc ↗
- Who funds Our Hope Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Faith and Learning International NFP ↗
- Who funds Realtime Initiatives ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN DEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HOPE NETWORK INTL INC ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND AWAKENING ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM IN FAITH MINISTRIES 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: Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Barnabas Foundation · The Doornink Foundation · Mojo Foundation · Weller Family Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust · WK Kellogg Foundation · 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 Take His Hand 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.
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