· Private foundation
The Huizenga Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY OF NILES | $50,000 |
| FERNWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN | $45,500 |
| NILES HISTORY CENTER | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA | $10,000 |
| CURIOUS MINDS DISCOVERY ZONE INC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUND | $1,250 |
| PIKES PEAK MAKERSPACE | $1,250 |
| ST MARY'S PARISH CHRISTIAN SERVICE | $750 |
| ST MARK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $700 |
| SW MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $700 |
| SW MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $500 |
| NILES EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CARE CUPBOARD HYGIENE PANTRY | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NILES | $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 (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $175k · revenue +177%
- FIFERNWOOD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +56%
- CMCURIOUS MINDS DISCOVERY ZONE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TETherapeutic Equestrian Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +109%
- MCMOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Mercer university's mission is to teach, to learn, to create, to discover, to inspire, to empower, and to serve.
The primary mission of the denver art museum is to enrich the lives of present and future generations through the acquisition, presentation, and preservation of works of art, supported by exemplary scholarship and public programs related…
To develop whole persons through scholarship, participation and service. mcpherson college is a vibrant community of persons from diverse faiths and cultural backgrounds. the college provides education in over 30 areas of study, serving…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
To provide a hands-on environment that engages children to use their curiosity and creativity while learning about the wonders of our world.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
The Y is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Michiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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.
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 49 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FERNWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS MINDS DISCOVERY ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOORSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Equestrian Center ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATING PARSONS INC ↗
- Who funds NILES-BUCHANAN MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Pikes Peak Makerspace ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDEN EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation · Parsons Area Community Foundation · Chemical Bank Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · 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 The Huizenga Family 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.