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The Zondervan 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $144,513 |
| DAVID'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| POTTER'S HOUSE | $22,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF INGHAM AND EA | $21,500 |
| SERVANTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| GRACE'S TABLE | $20,000 |
| HAND2HAND | $20,000 |
| DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS | $20,000 |
| LOVE IN ACTION | $18,219 |
| ACTS HONDURAS | $15,423 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| HATIAN AMERICANS FRIENDSHIP FND | $10,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- TPThe Potters House5× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +72%
- DHDAVID'S HOUSE4× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +85%
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES3× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SHSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +47%
- BIBranch Interfaith Hospitality Networkone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -37%
- GLGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
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.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
We build bridges between people experiencing the immediate effects of poverty and homelessness to the physical and spiritual resources available to alleviate suffering and facilitate long term transformation.
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.
The primary purpose of the organization is to bring glory to God by meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of those without adequate resources.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
Grace haven ministries mission is to rescue, renew, restore and return women to family and community after being set free of addiction through the power of jesus christ.
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
Habitat is a christian housing ministry that works with people in need to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing.
Welcome home ministries was formed in 1992 as a not-for-profit organization to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual support to individuals at their point of need. welcome home ministries works with various other not-for-profit…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Kalamazoo Valley Gleaners 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 26 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE'S TABLE ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS CARING TEACHING SHARING INC ↗
- Who funds Living Stones Academy ↗
- Who funds Daffodil Ministries ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNEXPECTED ↗
- Who funds DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds Georgetown Harmony Homes ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI MEDICAL MISSION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds NEWCOMERS ACCESS CENTER ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Buist Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Richard and Helen Devos Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way
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 Zondervan 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.
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.