· Private foundation
The Crossroads Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATCH CHARITY FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| NEW HART CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DEGAGE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DAISY FOUNDATION COREWELL NURSES | $10,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT MISSION | $10,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| FREDERICK MEIJER GARDENS | $1,500 |
| RENEE ROBERTS CROSS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- CCCATCH CHARITY FOR CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $60k
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
- ACALLENDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS4× · 2019–2022 · $45k
Funded once
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2018 · $40k
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +136%
- WWWOUNDED WARIIOR PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is called to express the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by providing behavioral health services with professional excellence, Christian integrity, and compassion.
Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.
We, genesis health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
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Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health pace is a member of trinity health.
Creating healthy communities - together
We, saint mary's foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint mary's foundation is a member of trinity health-michigan and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Grand Haven Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORI'S VOICE ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EAST GRAND RAPIDS TOUCHDOWN CLUB ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCT ALLENDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Grand Haven Christian School ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS RIGHT TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY INC D/B/A HARBOR HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
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 · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Barnabas Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation 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 The Crossroads 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.