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Van Singel Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH-WEST | $20,000 |
| SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| IMPACT MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| VANSINGEL FINE ARTS CENTER | $12,000 |
| BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BYRON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| ANNETTA JANSEN MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| STREAMS OF HOPE | $7,000 |
| THE ESTHER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CATHERINE'S CARE | $5,000 |
| WYOMING FAMILY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| GEMS | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MI | $5,000 |
| EXALTA HEALTH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Van Singel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SCSOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +57%
- IMIMPACT MINISTRIES USA8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +14%
- BCByron Community Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BTBYRON TOWNSHIP PARKS & RECone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LGLIFE GR JOHNSON- BROWER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $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.
Bicm is a preaching, teaching and prophetic ministry that engages in reaching out to the less fortunate, sick and shut in, broken hearted and poor in our communities within the united states and around the world by spreading the gospel of…
Provide church services for the community and surrounding neighborhood and outreach programs community service church at the beach and parks and events
None
Bring christ to people where they are, increase opportunities for discipleship, and to partner with existing churches, community agencies, and individuals to help fill the gaps and meet the needs within the community.
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Church
The mission of world servants is to display gods love to the world through church partnerships and gospel-centered service. the vision of world servants is connect churches in the usa to churches around the world with a shared goal of…
Teach the ministry of christ
The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.
To work with churches around michigan to honor god through collaborative services with food, games, live worship, biblical teaching, prayer, response time, and small groups.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Chaplain Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MINISTRIES USA ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Byron Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Streams of Hope ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHAPLAIN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE SEWS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
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: Buist Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Community Christian Ministries · Weller Family Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos 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 Van Singel 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.