· Private foundation
Vander Ploeg Family Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OOSTBURG CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SALT CHURCH | $27,500 |
| HOUSES WITH HOPE | $25,000 |
| CAMPUS LIFE INC OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $23,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OOSTBURG | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| AMAZIMA MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| FIRST REFORMED CHURCH | $8,000 |
| ROCKPOINT CHURCH | $7,500 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS | $5,000 |
| DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC | $5,000 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $5,000 |
| CRU | $5,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S STAFF MISSION FACILITATORS INC | $4,000 |
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, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CLCAMPUS LIFE INC OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $92k · revenue +12%
- AMAmazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +10%
- SSShepherds Staff Mission Fac Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SCSHEBOYGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $25k
- DSDESERT SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OAOOSTBURG ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To serve Christ by providing expertise, resources, and leadership to help the church make Christian Disciples in foreign lands, and to render assistance to the poor, sick, and needy in our places of service.
Promoting and spreading the good news of jesus christ by expanding, equipping and encouraging the world's indigenous workforce.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
Pilgrim Africa's mission is to challenge despair, love boldly, and help African people create a future of sustainable prosperity and health. We give ourselves in service to others regardless of economic, religious, or social standing,…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educational Media Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 74 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 CAMPUS LIFE INC OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East ↗
- Who funds HOUSES WITH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Staff Mission Fac Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE LUNDGREN BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S HAND INC ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY 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: Barnabas Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation · The Richard and Helen Devos Foundation · Randall J & Judith F Hake Family Foundation Inc · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc
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 Vander Ploeg Family Foundation Inc 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.
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