How much does The Doornink Foundation give?

The Doornink Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,016,814 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Doornink Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (16%), Human Services (10%).

Who are The Doornink Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital ($821k), Our Hope Association ($800k), Feeding America West Michigan ($640k).

Does The Doornink Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Doornink Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Doornink Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation, Cdv5 Foundation.

Where is The Doornink Foundation based?

The Doornink Foundation is based in MI.

The Doornink Foundation

The Doornink Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$1.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.1MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$779kFood & Nutrition$660kReligion$600kRecreation & Sports$570kArts & Culture$460kHousing & Shelter$380kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $2k
$10k–50k6 grants · $115k
$50k–250k8 grants · $400k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NORTH POINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS	$500,000
GLOBAL HOPE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL	$50,000
MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES	$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN	$50,000
JOHN BALL ZOO	$50,000
THE POTTER'S HOUSE	$50,000
WEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY TENNIS	$50,000
UNKNOWN NATIONS	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.8M · 27 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+11%

Still filing today

67%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MF
MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
7× · 2017–2023 · $821k · revenue +126%
FA
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN
6× · 2019–2025 · $640k · revenue +37%
WM
West Michigan Community Tennis Inc
3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +197% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

CU
Cornerstone University
one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue -25%
HP
HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -44%
HO
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY
one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -11%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Michigan Christian Home

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…

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Hope House of Northwest Michigan

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…

Human Services

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity - Grand Traverse Region

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…

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Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment

National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—

National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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The Grosse Pointe Academy

The mission of the grosse pointe academy is to nurture, challenge and inspire the intellectual, creative and personal potential in each and every child.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilda's Club Grand Rapids; 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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

21/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,449,000Education$1,072,756Health$821,000Recreation & Sports$550,000Human Services$385,000Housing & Shelter$300,000Philanthropy$202,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI35.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Doornink Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Doornink Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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By state

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