· Private foundation
Thomas M and Marilyn J Dewitt Norman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of THOMAS M AND MARILYN J DEWITT NORMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD REFORMED CHURCH | $50,000 |
| YORKVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $30,000 |
| REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA | $30,000 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $15,000 |
| ASJ | $10,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES | $4,000 |
| NEW BRUNSWICK THEO SEMINARY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CAMP GENEVA | $1,000 |
| MULTIPLICATION NETWORK | $1,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| CRAN HILL RANCH | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +25%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +227%
- RResthaven6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- GLGREAT LAKE URBAN MINISTRYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- RFREADY FOR SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +53%
- YFYOUTH FOR CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
SpringHills mission is to glorify God by creating life-impacting experiences that enable young people to know Jesus Christ and to grow in their relationship with Him.
Hill house ministries purpose is to equip christians to serve christ, to defend and apply their faith, and to proclaim the gospel on campus and in our culture.
New hope christian college exists to disciple emerging christian leaders by developing their theology, ministry skills, and character in order to win souls, plant fruitful churches, and lead as exemplary ambassadors for christ in the…
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Likewise Ministry exists to train Christians in the disciple-making strategy of Jesus. Through an in-depth study of the life of Christ, ongoing coaching, and on-location training experiences, learners are equipped to apply Jesus' model to…
See schedule o. we serve individuals, families, educational institutions, religiously affiliated groups, social service agencies, community service organizations, and other nonprofit organizations that enrich life in the world. we are a…
Rest haven illiana christian convalescent home d/b/a providence life services (rest haven) is a not-for-profit illinois corporation whose purpose is to provide nursing and residential living arrangements for the aged including skilled…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resthaven and the most unlike its peers is Quality Affordable Homes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 25 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.
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Edward H & Diana H Marsilje Charitable Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Howard Miller Foundation · Stephen and Valerie Spoelhof Foundation · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · The Brandsma Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Thomas M and Marilyn J Dewitt Norman 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.
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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