· 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 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 $10k21 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS WORLDWIDE | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| COVENANT LIFE CHURCH | $35,000 |
| KIBBUSE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE GR | $14,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| EMMANUEL FREE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ARISE RWANDA MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| NEW COMMUNITY CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CRU | $7,500 |
| GUIDING LIGHT | $7,500 |
| CORAM DEO ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| POTTERS HOUSE | $7,000 |
| RECONCILIATION OF LIFE | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 61 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 PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Western Michigan Christian High School ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE MINISTRIES 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 Discipling Marketplace Leaders ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tony Betten Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tony Betten Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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