· Private foundation
The Winkle Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $15,000 |
| LAKE CITY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $6,313 |
| ALL BELONG | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CALVIN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $1,000 |
| LIFE RESOURCE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| REVIVAL CENTER | $500 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $250 |
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 US giving — 79% of grant dollars ($273k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($72k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 21% of all-years giving ($72k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- TLTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +52%
- NMNORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +3%
- ABALL BELONG5× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- SLSOCIEDAD LUCAS ONGINCone grant, 2023 · $62k
- NNCFone grant, 2024 · $31k
- CCCENTRO CHRISTIANA DE SALUD INTEGRALone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
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.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Provide humanitarian aid and christian discipleship.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
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…
Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Homeword seeks to advance the work of god in the world by educating, equipping, and encouraging parents and churches to build god-honoring families from generation to generation.
Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.
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…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifewise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Canefire Inc. 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 41 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALL BELONG ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Liferesource Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Living Stones Academy ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CANEFIRE INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Every Man A Warrior Inc ↗
- Who funds TARGET DAYTON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds BIBLE BASICS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · Cadillac Area Community Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Winkle 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.
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
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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