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West Michigan Christian Foundation

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$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $425,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $435,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN HARMONY HOMES$100,000
GRAND RAPIDS DREAM CENTER$50,000
NEW CITY NETWORKS$50,000
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$50,000
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST$50,000
ALIVE ON THE LAKESHORE$50,000
STARTUP GARAGE$25,000
COMMUNITY HOPE$25,000
LIFE REMODELED$25,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $50k → 12%STARTUP GARAGE: $25k → 8%GRAND RAPIDS DREAM CENTER: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY HOPE: $25k → 13%ALIVE ON THE LAKESHORE: $50k → 15%LIFE REMODELED: $25k → 21%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $120k → 13%CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%NEW CITY NETWORKS: $50k → 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.
03Its 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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Explore God Network
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3
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
4
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
5
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
6
God Centered Life Ministries

God Centered Life is organized to call our culture church and society back to a realization that true life is genuinely and fully centered upon God as revealed in the Bible the person of Jesus Christ and the Trinity - Father Son and Holy…

Religion
7
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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8
Harvest Connection

Bring connection to churches for ministry and education in local and global mission

Religion
9
Center for Christianity and Public Life

To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.

Religion
10
In Christ Washington Church

Church to worship and fellowship

Religion
11
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Christian Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is New City Networks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $120,250 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUND…Georgetown Harmony Homes: $100,000 · Human ServicesGeorgetown Harmony H…INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $50,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENERO…ENCOUNTER MORE MINISTRIES: $50,000 · ReligionENCOUNTER MORE MINIS…ALIVE ON THE LAKESHORE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureALIVE ON T…CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCALVIN UNI…New City Networks: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNew City N…COMMUNITY HOPE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementLIFE REMODELED: $25,000 · OtherLIFE REMOD…STARTUP GARAGE: $25,000 · OtherSTARTUP GA…
Philanthropy$120,250Human Services$100,000Religion$100,000Arts & Culture$50,000Education$50,000Youth Development$50,000Community Improvement$25,000Other$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $120,250 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew City Networks: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLIFE REMODELED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY22–24
    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 10 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 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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