· Private foundation
The John and Phyllis Groot Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYSTAR EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| DAYSTAR EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $28,500 |
| CHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| SELF HELP ALTERNATIVE LIVING OPPORTUNITIES OF MICH | $15,000 |
| LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $14,500 |
| MUSKEGON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION | $8,500 |
| WORLD RENEW | $7,628 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $7,628 |
| MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $5,000 |
| UNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| LIVING WITH HOPE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SHSELF HELP ALTERNATIVE LIVING OPPORTUNITIES OF MI5× · 2020–2024 · $119k · revenue +489%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +106%
- LWLIVING WITH HOPE5× · 2020–2024 · $99k · revenue +433%
Funded once
- ICICCF COMMUNITY HOMESone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -20%
- CRCAMP ROGERone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
- TCTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -1%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
Equip young people for life and service for jesus christ through biblical foundations, christ-like character development, and academic preparation in partnership with the home and local church.
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
Eastside christian school's mission is educating children in the christ inspired, joyful pursuit of excellence. our purpose is to operate a high quality christian private school in order to help students grow and mature in christian faith,…
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Muskegon 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.
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 51 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 50 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 DAYSTAR EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP ALTERNATIVE LIVING OPPORTUNITIES OF MI ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LIVING WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Western Michigan Christian High School ↗
- Who funds Muskegon Christian School ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Southwest Chicago Christian School Association ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROSELAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAMP ROGER ↗
- Who funds LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSIO INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · The Brandsma Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Tony Betten Family 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 John and Phyllis Groot 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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