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Taylor-Wierda Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $17,482 |
| HUDSONVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,436 |
| IMPACT CHURCH | $5,000 |
| I UNDERSTAND LOVE HEALS | $2,500 |
| UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT MISSION | $1,000 |
| LAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| ALL BELONG | $1,000 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP | $1,000 |
| GATEWAY MISSION | $1,000 |
| GREAT LAKES REGION VOLLEYBALL | $350 |
| WEST SIDE RATTLERS BASEBALL ASSOCIA | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
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 administer intercollegiate athletic programs for colleges and universities
Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.
To communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.
The mission of hg lacrosse is to build a community that inspires and empowers players to excel in life and lacrosse.
To provide respite for families caring for a child with cancer.
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Soccer League - To teach soccer to kids ages 4-17
The mission of the Greater Libertyville Soccer Association is to provide and promote a positive soccer experience for every participant appropriate to his or her level of interest and ability.
Great Life Mentoring cultivates meaningful relationships where children facing adversity-and the adults who mentor them-live happier, healthier lives.
Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with lou gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guiding Light Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westside Rattlers Baseball Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 I Understand Love Heals ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALL BELONG ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Region Volleyball Assn ↗
- Who funds Westside Rattlers Baseball Association ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Taylor-Wierda 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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