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Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of VAN DEVENDER FAMILY FOUNDATION WILLIAM VAN DEVENDER TRUSTEE’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $537k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISS FOUNDATION | $202,500 |
| JACKSON PREP FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CITY CHURCH | $77,000 |
| BUT GOD MINISTRIES | $57,400 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GRACE CITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| SHORELINE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OREGON MEMORIAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREATER EASTOVER NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE URBAN MS 18 | $7,450 |
| WARREN COUNTY CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $6,000 |
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, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 14 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; $42k 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
OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $917k · revenue +97%
BUT GOD MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $547k · revenue +65%- CCCENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $103k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RSRePublic Schools Jackson Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +48%
- CFCENTER FOR PREGNANCY CHOICES METRO AREAone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -27%
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.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
M28 ministries, inc. is a christian 501c3 non-profit organization that exists to teach youth and adults about christian discipleship in the manner of matthew 28:19-20, "go into all of the world teaching, preaching, and baptizing in the…
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Mission quest exists to glorify god by assisting christian missionaries and to reach the nations with the message of faith, grace, and victory through jesus christ. this is accomplished through mobilizing and support of missionaries and…
Empowered by the belief that all people have basic rights to dignity and compassion, our mission at mercy housing and human development is to recognize the need for sustainable, affordable housing for low-wealth families of south…
The purpose of the baptist missionary association theological seminary is to provide accredited undergraduate and graduate theological education for equipping individuals for christian service and leadership roles.
The mission, inc. was established to 1. meet the needs of the lost, hurting and broken in north mississippi, 2. equip the person to walk in freedom and victory, and 3. work alongside local churches training believers to go out and serve…
Mississippi baptist health systems, inc.'s foundation and tradition is its christian healing ministry. the mission is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Baptist memorial hospital-north mississippi, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Del Monte Forest Conservancy. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
120 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. 120 of the 258 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 OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RePublic Schools Jackson Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER EASTOVER NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · Make a Difference Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Telos Foundation Inc · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · C Spire 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 Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee 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.