· Private foundation
Tony Betten Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
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 $10k21 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS WORLDWIDE | $40,000 |
| COVENANT LIFE CHURCH | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| KIBBUSE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE GR | $14,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| EMMANUEL FREE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ARISE RWANDA MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT | $7,500 |
| CRU | $7,500 |
| NEW COMMUNITY CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CORAM DEO ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| POTTERS HOUSE | $7,000 |
| RECONCILIATION OF LIFE | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +4% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- PWPARTNERS WORLDWIDE9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +37%
- WMWestern Michigan Christian High School2× · 2018–2022 · $41k · revenue +17%
- TPThe Potters House4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IFIMMANUEL FREE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
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West Michigan Youth for Christ seeks to reach young people everywhere, working with the local church and like-minded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who lead by godly lifestyle, devotion to the Bible and prayer, passion for sharing…
RBM Ministries is a faith-based ministry committed to assisting Bible believing churches in the Great Lakes region to reach children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to see those children and their families discipled and established in…
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
To share god's love in the workplace by providing a personalized and proactive employee care service through chaplain teams.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Sharing the gospel while providing hope and transformation.
To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ
Faith-based education and care of children
Great lakes christian college, an institution of higher education affiliated with christian churches/churches of christ, seeks to glorify god by preparing students to be servant-leaders in the church and world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Kibbuse 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 61 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 PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Western Michigan Christian High School ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE RWANDA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIBBUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Discipling Marketplace Leaders ↗
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 · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Richard and Helen Devos Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Mercantile Bank 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 organization Tony Betten 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.