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Ufp Industries 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $236k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $464k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Home Depot Foundation | $225,000 |
| Job Creators Network | $60,000 |
| Able to Serve | $50,000 |
| Feeding America Tampa Bay | $40,000 |
| Joan Secchia Childrens Rehabilitation Hospital | $35,000 |
| Gildas Club Grand Rapids | $33,000 |
| Home Repair Services | $28,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Kent County | $28,000 |
| Wedgewood Christian Services | $28,000 |
| DA Blodgett St Johns | $23,000 |
| Foundation for Individual Rights FIRE | $20,000 |
| Guiding Light | $20,000 |
| The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression | $20,000 |
| Land Conservancy of West Michigan | $20,000 |
| Junior Achievement | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 46 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k 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
- JCJOB CREATORS NETWORK INC3× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +52%
- WCWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +27%
- HRHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- UBUFP BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -49% · 91% of their budget
- UIUFP INDUSTRIES EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -18%
- JCJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +42%
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.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Ufp Industries Education Foundation. 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 32 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 34% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
144 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. 144 of the 248 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UFP BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UFP INDUSTRIES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOB CREATORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds ABLE TO SERVE ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network ↗
- Who funds Literacy Center of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds EXODUS PLACE ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Frey Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos 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 organization Ufp Industries 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Clinical & Support Options Inc — 32% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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