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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
98
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Employment$1.4MHousing & Shelter$564kHuman Services$420kHealth$279kCivil Rights$195kEducation$173kPhilanthropy$161kRecreation & Sports$159kOther$0
02FY2024 · 98 grants

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
$3,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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.

area typical 10%Pine Street Inn: $3k → 16%The Link: $3k → 11%Family Promise of Lehigh Valley: $3k → 11%Hopes Path: $5k → 9%Shawnee Rescue Mission: $2k → 19%Metropolitan Ministries: $2k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Chapman Partnership: $2k → 15%Hope Haven of Cass County: $3k → 8%Mr Bobs Under the Bridge: $3k → 6%GIFTS Mens Shelter: $3k → 10%Hamilton County Coalition: $3k → 12%Safe Alliance - Victim Assistance: $2k → 10%Safe Space Inc: $2k → 11%I-58 Mission Inc: $5k → 8%Atlanta Mission: $1k → 13%Fostering Hope: $3k → 9%Community Hope: $2k → 4%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Women's Rural Advocacy Program: $2k → 11%Sharing and Caring Hands: $3k → 11%Family Promise of Lehigh Valley: $2k → 11%New Braunfels Angels: $5k → 10%Hope Haven of Cass County: $2k → 8%Mr Bobs Under The Bridge: $2k → 6%GIFTS Mens Shelter: $2k → 10%Hamilton County Coalition: $2k → 12%Putnam Christian Outreach Inc: $3k → 13%Fostering Hope: $2k → 9%Sharing Caring Hands: $2k → 11%Putnam Christian Outreach Inc: $2k → 13%Respite Care Inc: $5k → 11%The Link: $2k → 11%Alpha Grand Rapids: $2k → 11%Samaritas: $3k → 11%Renew Mobility: $3k → 11%Renew Mobility: $3k → 11%Alternatives in Motion: $1k → 11%The Store House: $6k → 11%The Store House: $6k → 11%The StoreHouse: $3k → 11%Storehouse of Community Resources: $3k → 11%The Store House: $2k → 11%Wedgwood Christian Services: $28k → 11%Wedgewood Christian Services: $28k → 11%Wedgwood Christian Services: $16k → 11%Wedgwood Christian Services: $7k → 11%Wedgwood Christian Services: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 86 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
115

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+18%

Still filing today

71%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • JC
    JOB CREATORS NETWORK INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +52%
  • WC
    WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +27%
  • HR
    HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • UB
    UFP BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -49% · 91% of their budget
  • UI
    UFP INDUSTRIES EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -18%
  • JC
    JOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one 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.

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.

1
Cathedral Center Inc

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…

Religion
2
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

3
City Rescue Mission Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Welcome House Inc

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…

Health
5
Hope Ministries

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…

Human Services
6
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

8
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

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…

9
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
10
Community & Home Supports Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Samaritan House Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Construc…Affordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringMilitary Veterans SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Food PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr18%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%34%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr18%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 34% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/152
the rest of the field
12%
6,510/53,704

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
140/144
Grantees still filing
89/144
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Home Depot Foundation — $225,000 · OtherHome Depot FoundationUFP INDUSTRIES EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherUFP INDUSTRIES EDUCATION FOUNDATIONJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Other+135 more — $1,557,678 · Other+135 moreUFP BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM — $1,027,500 · EducationUFP BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PR…+6 more — $85,750 · Education+6 moreJOB CREATORS NETWORK INC — $135,000 · Civil RightsGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS — $65,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $37,500 · Civil RightsActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $29,500 · Civil RightsCASA of Central Texas Inc — $10,000 · Civil RightsHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC — $76,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $58,100 · Housing & ShelterBranch Interfaith Hospitality Network — $35,500 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $18,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+5 more — $27,000 · Housing & ShelterWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $80,500 · Human ServicesSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $19,189 · Human ServicesRENEW MOBILITY — $8,000 · Human Services+23 more — $94,000 · Human ServicesABLE TO SERVE — $50,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $40,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $15,000 · HealthANXIETY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $7,500 · HealthBIGHEART CENTER FOR BRAIN CHANGE FRAZIER — $5,000 · HealthO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $7,650 · HealthMACKINAC CENTER — $67,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS4USA INC — $6,700 · Public Benefit+1 more — $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,057,678Education$1,113,250Civil Rights$277,000Housing & Shelter$224,600Human Services$201,689Health$145,900Public Benefit$76,200

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUFP BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM — $1,027,500 over 1y, 91% of budgetJOB CREATORS NETWORK INC — $135,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $80,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC — $76,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $67,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS — $65,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $58,100 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S — $58,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetABLE TO SERVE — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMorgan's Wonderland — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $40,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLand Conservancy of West Michigan — $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBranch Interfaith Hospitality Network — $35,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetLiteracy Center of West Michigan — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $28,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC — $26,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBill of Rights Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXODUS PLACE — $20,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MISSAD FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $19,189 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $16,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRAND RAPIDS PARKS — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEBSTER FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCOLEMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLove Your Neighbor of West Michigan — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potters House — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANXIETY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGrand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA of Central Texas Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI71× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans66% of income from government
  • Community Hope Inc41% of income from government
  • Clinical & Support Options Inc32% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc2% of income from government
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc2% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc0% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ufp Industries Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ufp Industries Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 248 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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