· Private foundation
The Wesselink Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| GLENKIRK | $60,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $22,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOLLAND MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SEARCH | $10,000 |
| CARE USA | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $5,000 |
| ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $482k · revenue +7%
- HCHOPE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +37%
Buena Vista University9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +10%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- LOLyric Opera of Chicagoone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -1%
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds The Keystone Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Glenkirk ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Search Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wesselink Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wesselink Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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