· Private foundation
The Korff 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $227k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT ST MICHAEL ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| SAMARTITAN'S PURSE | $35,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE VAN ANDEL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF STATESMANSHIP | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE K-12 INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| ST ANN'S PARISH AND IT'S MISSIONS | $15,000 |
| MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AQUINAS COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| BISSELL PET FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| HARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $6,400 |
| THE BLOOD CANCER FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $6,000 |
| EMMANUEL HOSPICE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
122 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 10 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +76%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +84%- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue ×11
Funded once
- LYLIBERTY YOUTH ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +51%
- CICALHOUN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT - JACK KORFF CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VAVAN ANDEL SCHOOL OF STATESMANSHIPone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Creating healthy communities - together
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
Centrica meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.
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…
How this is measured
93 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. 93 of the 182 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY YOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CLARK RETIREMENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND AT LAKE LOUISE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RENEW MOBILITY ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT PARK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds CAMP AO-WA-KIYA ↗
- Who funds W O L F ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Frey Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Ufp Industries Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Korff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Korff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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