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The Doornink 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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH POINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $500,000 |
| UNKNOWN NATIONS | $50,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY TENNIS | $50,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| JOHN BALL ZOO | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL HOPE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| THE POTTER'S HOUSE | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $30,000 |
| NEW CITY KIDS | $25,000 |
| MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $25,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 40 HEARTSIDE INC | $15,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS | $10,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $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, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k 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
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL7× · 2017–2023 · $821k · revenue +126%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN6× · 2019–2025 · $640k · revenue +37%
- WMWest Michigan Community Tennis Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +197% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- CUCornerstone Universityone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue -25%
- HPHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -44%
- HOHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -11%
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.
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…
Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Habitat for humanity - grand traverse region is an ecumenical christian housing ministry. the organization works in partnership with people to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing. habitat challenges…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The mission of the grosse pointe academy is to nurture, challenge and inspire the intellectual, creative and personal potential in each and every child.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and the most unlike its peers is Help Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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 MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Our Hope Association ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds West Michigan Community Tennis Inc ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HOPE NETWORK INTL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGES DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE 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 · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Weller Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Take His Hand Foundation · Jct Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way
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 Doornink 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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