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Weller 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.
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 $10k21 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANDVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,000,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $50,000 |
| SPRING HILL CAMPS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| BEYOND 26 | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY KENT COUNTY | $7,500 |
| FAITH HOSPICE | $7,500 |
| KID'S FOOD BASKET | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ANCHOR POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SAN JUAN DIEGO ACADEMY | $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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
51 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $388k · revenue +59%
- CMCRAN-HILL MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +156%
- FHFaith Hospice8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2018 · $1.5M
- GLGrandville Library Campaignone grant, 2019 · $50k
- ICIVANREST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $43k
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.
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The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
Christian day school with pre-k thru 12
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Equip young people for life and service for jesus christ through biblical foundations, christ-like character development, and academic preparation in partnership with the home and local church.
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
Nces partners with christian families and churches to provide a god-centered, discipleship-based school with academic excellence and a biblical worldview, equipping students to serve and influence the world for christ.
At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
King's way partners with families to provide a christ-centered education for the whole child leading to life change in each student.
To provide an exceptional christian education in accordance with god's word; we prayerfully partner with families to help their students grow in love for the lord, to inspire lifelong learning, & to serve others.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is One Wyoming Inc. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 112 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 COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SpringHill Camps ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 26 INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Equine Assisted Development ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRANDVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Buist Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy 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 Weller 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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