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The Randy and Terri Disselkoen 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of THE RANDY AND TERRI DISSELKOEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$3,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$658k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL$12,000
FAITH PRAYER & TRACT LEAGUE$10,000
CRU CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$7,000
CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,300
BIBLICAL LEARNING CENTER$2,000
BRODYS BE CAFE$1,250
UNKNOWN NATIONS$1,000
LIFE TOGETHER FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$255k · 7 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$255k
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+35%

Still filing today

29%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CM
    CLI MINISTRIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $105k
  • TT
    THE TRACK LEAGUE
    3× · 2017–2024 · $63k
  • LT
    Life Together Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TRACT LEAGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $136k
  • GR
    GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +176%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

2
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
3
Life Network

Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…

Health
4
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
5
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Field Life

Field life is a nonprofit christian ministry that supports missionaries in their cross-cultural work around the world. field life provides educational and religious activities to support these workers so that they can be healthy and…

Religion
8
West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
9
Worklife Ministry Inc

To promote and facilitate the highest quality of work life; providing program resources to benefit the region's residents, workplaces and communities.

Religion
10
Love Worth Finding Ministries Inc

To share the gospel throughout the world.

Religion
11
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
12
Union Foundation Us

Rigorous biblical and accessible education, training and resources for churches worldwide.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Life Together Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRACT LEAGUE — $135,500 · OtherTHE TRACT LEAGUECLI MINISTRIES — $105,000 · OtherCLI MINISTRIESTHE TRACK LEAGUE — $62,500 · OtherTHE TRACK LEAGUECRU MINISTRIES — $20,000 · Other+18 more — $84,088 · Other+18 moreLife Together Foundation — $29,200 · PhilanthropyGRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL INC — $24,000 · Recreation & SportsGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationFAITH PRAYER & TRACT LEAGUE — $10,000 · ReligionLIVING WATER MINISTRY NETWORK — $400 · ReligionWOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 · InternationalUNKNOWN NATIONS — $1,000 · InternationalCascade Community Foundation — $5,300 · Human Services
Other$407,088Philanthropy$29,200Recreation & Sports$24,000Education$20,000Religion$10,400International$6,000Human Services$5,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLife Together Foundation — $29,200 over 3y, 31% of budgetGRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL INC — $24,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH PRAYER & TRACT LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCascade Community Foundation — $5,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNKNOWN NATIONS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING WATER MINISTRY NETWORK — $400 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Life Together Foundation
  • Who funds GRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAITH PRAYER & TRACT LEAGUE
  • Who funds Cascade Community Foundation
  • Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds BE CAFE
  • Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS
  • Who funds Faith Hospice
  • Who funds LIVING WATER MINISTRY NETWORK

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Randy and Terri Disselkoen 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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