How much did THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION reported 12 grants totaling $351,655 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION based?

THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION is based in MI.

THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$352k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$145k

Largest

01What you fund

0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$914kHuman Services$90kHousing & Shelter$79kReligion$72kHealth$61kFood & Nutrition$30kInternational$15kOther$520k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

technology improvements

2021

startupeducationtechnology improvements

2022

facilitiestechnology

2023

bookspurchase

2025

playground equipmentwarehouse

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k11 grants · $207k
$50k–250k1 grant · $145k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$144,513
DAVID'S HOUSE$25,000
POTTER'S HOUSE$22,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF INGHAM AND EA$21,500
HAND2HAND$20,000
SERVANTS CENTER$20,000
DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS$20,000
GRACE'S TABLE$20,000
LOVE IN ACTION$18,219
ACTS HONDURAS$15,423
WORDS OF HOPE$15,000
HATIAN AMERICANS FRIENDSHIP FND$10,000

02The need

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 (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 20 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+59%

Still filing today

60%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

CT
CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
6× · 2020–2025 · $816k · revenue +31%
DH
DAVIDS HOUSE
4× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +78%
PH
POTTERS HOUSE
4× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +72%

Funded once

SH
SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -36%
FP
FAMILY PROMISE
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +82%
GL
GUIDING LIGHT MISSION
one 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.

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.

Skagit Valley Hospitality House

To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need.

Housing & Shelter

Harvest Home Inc

Harvest Home transforms the lives of homeless, pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers.

Human Services

Mercy House Ministries Inc

Mercy House provides residential housing, educational development, professional counseling, spiritual mentoring and prenatal and postpartum services for single, pregnant women.

Housing & Shelter

Grace Global Ministries Inc

Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.

International

Life House

To bring life in abundance to Uganda using vocational training and spiritual renewal.

Human Services

Ministry Center

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.

Human Services

Bridge of Hope Ministries

As a faith-based organization, we believe our mission is to share God's love for all unhoused or housing insecure individuals regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or faith tradition.

Religion

Harvest Bridge

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.

Religion

Magnificat Houses Inc

Magnificat Houses, Inc. offers a welcoming community where those needing housing, food and mental health programs can grow in stability, productivity and independence.

Health

Servenow

Sharing Christ's passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.

Human Services

David's House Ministries

To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness.

Housing & Shelter

Hospitality House

Giving home, health and hope to women experiencing homelessness

Housing & Shelter

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.

Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,831

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

18/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$914,200Other$519,920Human Services$89,871Housing & Shelter$79,150Religion$72,392Health$61,000Food & Nutrition$30,000International$15,000

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.

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.

Barnabas FoundationIL21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Richard and Helen Devos Foundation · Buist Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Weller Family Foundation · Cornucopia Family 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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAMILY PROMISE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up +82% since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383526724 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAMILY PROMISE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Zondervan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Zondervan Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Zondervan Foundation?

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THE ZONDERVAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Zondervan Foundation?

More from the funding graph