How much did THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE grant in FY2024?

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE reported 217 grants totaling $14,238,938 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE based?

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE is based in MI.

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE

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THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their charitable goals, and leading and partnering in community-level initiatives.

$14M

Granted FY2024

217

Grants

Communities

$1.3M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

deptstartsuppcop sumnerhomelessthird coastlittle

2019

village scholarshiptitherightsfireworksgardensourcecircles

2020

manmissionsreconcilingchristian healthpastorschapelmulder

2021

catholic westofferedtechnologypresentation filmfilm videovideo mediacareers

2022

icrccelticitalian languageparkseducational choicefostersdifference

2023

single momsrockfordrefmarriagewomen childrenmental wellnesscommunityworks

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 217 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k43 grants · $299k
$10k–50k114 grants · $2.6M
$50k–250k52 grants · $5.2M
$250k+8 grants · $4.5M

$23,300

Median grant

States reached

$135M

Total assets

Largest grants

ODC NETWORK$1,294,307
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$983,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$490,500
LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION$432,575
LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE$378,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND$294,282
CASA-CHILDREN'S AFTER SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT$292,998
GATEWAY MISSION$289,288
OAKLAND CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH$242,327
COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE$232,331
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$225,921
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES$211,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$207,565
PILLAR CHURCH$181,822
CRITTER BARN$165,578

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$71M · 274 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

274 repeat relationships — 185 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

274

123

Total granted

$71M

$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+39%

Still filing today

70%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

OD
OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER MACATAWA GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +371%
CB
CRITTER BARN
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +463% · 73% of their budget
MC
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
4× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +64%

Funded once

WM
WEST MICHIGAN CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $804k · revenue +1044% · 29% of their budget
MM
MICHIGAN MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $623k · revenue -63%
NC
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGANgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $323k · revenue +165% · 34% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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Great Lakes Bible College

To provide bible-oriented systematic training, resulting in a two or four year degree.

Education

Love Your Neighbor of West Michigan

Following Jesus Christ, who transforms lives, Love Your Neighbor equips our community to love, serve and connect with dignity.

Unclassified

Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.

Housing & Shelter

Mid-America Christian University Inc

Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.

—

United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

Greater Muskegon Catholic Schools

Educate each student in spirit, mind and body by fostering personal excellence within the Catholic tradition.

—

Greater Lansing Youth for Christ

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.

—

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—

Goodwill Industries of Central

Goodwill industries of central michigan's heartland helps individuals with barriers to competitive employment change their lives through the power of work, by providing soft skills and hard skills training, support services and career…

Employment

Luther House of Study

Strengthening lutheran leadership and ministries.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Opera Grand Rapids. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%2/429

the rest of the field

13%

6,558/52,252

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.

05the grantee network

304 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

120

Early backer (in before they grew)

298/304

Grantees still filing

249/304

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$44,855,460Human Services$11,298,580Education$6,909,645Youth Development$4,074,882Animals$3,585,695Public Benefit$3,065,166Community Improvement$2,668,152

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.

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.

Grand Haven Area CommunityMI136.9× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Haven Area Community · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun

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 organisation THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383577991 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Community Foundation of The?

Find your warmest path to The Community Foundation of The through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

304 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation of The?

More from the funding graph

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

304 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation of The?

More from the funding graph