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Van Singel Family Foundation at a glance

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Van Singel 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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$298kHealth$221kEducation$200kHuman Services$88kYouth Development$56kArts & Culture$54kFood & Nutrition$37kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT MINISTRIES$15,000
SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$15,000
VANSINGEL FINE ARTS CENTER$15,000
BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH-WEST$10,000
GEMS$10,000
STREAMS OF HOPE$8,000
BYRON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$8,000
ANNETTA JANSEN MINISTRIES$8,000
DEGAGE MINISTRIES$7,500
THE ESTHER SCHOOL$7,500
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MI$7,000
WYOMING FAMILY NETWORK$7,000
EXALTA HEALTH$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%STREAMS OF HOPE: $8k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $7k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $5k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $7k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $4k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $7k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $4k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $7k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $4k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $3k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $5k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $3k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $3k → 11%PINE REST FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $3k → 11%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $3k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $10k → 11%BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 11%BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Van Singel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Van Singel Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 29 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$30k

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +57%
  • IM
    IMPACT MINISTRIES USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +14%
  • BC
    Byron Community Ministries Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • BT
    BYRON TOWNSHIP PARKS & REC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • LG
    LIFE GR JOHNSON- BROWER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Come to Him Ministries

To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…

Health
2
Believers in Christ Ministries Inc Bicm

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…

Religion
3
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
4
Christian Social Ministries Inc

Our goal and mission is to meet the physical and monetary needs of the less fortunate in our communities, which in turn will allow us to share the gospel of jesus christ and build the kingdom of god, as well as showing the love of our lord…

Religion
5
Christian Faith Ministry

Feeding the hungry

Human Services
6
Our Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc

The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.

Human Services
7
Weakday Ministries

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.

Community Improvement
8
Christian Mission Centers Inc

The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.

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9
Salt With a Mission

Teach the ministry of christ

Religion
10
Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge

Housing & Shelter
11
Loaves & Fishes the Church Without Walls

Community outreach and church services

Religion
12
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries; 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.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $79,500 · OtherMETRO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCATHERINE'S CARE: $68,500 · OtherCATHERINE'S CARETHE ESTHER SCHOOL: $67,000 · OtherTHE ESTHER SCHOOLANNETTA JANSEN MINISTRIES: $54,000 · OtherANNETTA JANSEN MINISTRIESUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH-WEST: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH-WESTVANSINGEL FINE ARTS CENTER: $42,000 · OtherVANSINGEL FINE ARTS CENTERBYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherBUIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $27,000 · OtherGEMS: $22,500 · OtherFAMILY NETWORK: $32,000 · Other+16 more: $147,000 · Other+16 moreSOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $137,500 · EducationSOUTH CHRISTI…Streams of Hope: $56,000 · Human ServicesStreams of H…VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $32,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEERS I…BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesBUIST COMMUN…DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $16,500 · Human ServicesDEGAGE MINIS…+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT MINISTRIES USA: $127,000 · ReligionIMPACT MINIS…Byron Community Ministries Inc: $59,500 · PhilanthropyDYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES: $56,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES: $50,000 · Health
Other$614,500Education$137,500Human Services$127,500Religion$127,000Philanthropy$59,500Youth Development$56,000Health$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $137,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT MINISTRIES USA: $127,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetByron Community Ministries Inc: $59,500 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetDYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES: $56,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetStreams of Hope: $56,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES: $50,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY NETWORK: $32,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE: $32,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetBYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEGAGE MINISTRIES: $16,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPLAIN SERVICES INC: $9,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHAND2HAND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE REST FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT MINISTRIES USA ↗
  • Who funds Byron Community Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds DYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
  • 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 FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAPLAIN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE SEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
  • Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Buist FoundationGrand Rapids Communit…Barnabas FoundationMarion & Marlene Bett…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Community Christian M…Weller Family Foundat…Cdv5 FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Dick and Betsy Devos …
Buist FoundationMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Van Singel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Singel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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