· Private foundation
Word Investments Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $181k
- $250k+1 grant · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEVOLENCE | $260,843 |
| THE SEED COMPANY | $80,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $51,035 |
| MASTER'S RANCH AND CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $50,278 |
| CALVARY CHURCH | $31,158 |
| JONES-JOHNSON FAMILY MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| DOOR | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $14,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $12,750 |
| NETWORK 20 INTERNATIONAL | $12,500 |
| CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES | $12,500 |
| NEW CITY NETWORKS | $12,000 |
| GRACE GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CHURCH PLANTERS TRAINING INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| UNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k 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
- GEGrace Explorations6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +50%
- N2NETWORK 20 INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +9%
- CPCHURCH PLANTERS TRAINING INTERNATIONAL4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +468%
Funded once
- NSNest & Sparrowone grant, 2022 · $155k
- CTCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue 0%
- CBClear Bible Incone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -100%
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.
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…
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
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…
Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
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.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Eurasia and the most unlike its peers is Nest & Sparrow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 96 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 CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Nest & Sparrow ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Grace Explorations ↗
- Who funds NETWORK 20 INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Clear Bible Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAITH SEXUALITY AND GENDER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds CHURCH PLANTERS TRAINING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SpringHill Camps ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL ↗
- Who funds GRACE GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds New City Networks ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION OF COLO ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND AWAKENING ↗
- Who funds TWO FISH FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Word Investments 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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