· Private foundation
The Winkle Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| LIFE RESOURCE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| CALVIN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $1,000 |
| REVIVAL CENTER | $500 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($72k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 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 BIBLE BASICS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds TARGET DAYTON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Every Man A Warrior Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Winkle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winkle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Hope Inc: 41% of income from government
How this is measured
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