Michigan · Private foundation
Word Investments Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $664k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,843
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 41
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Word Investments Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $650k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $423k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $402k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $764k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $676k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $727k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cure International Inc | $331,035 | 5 | 0% |
| Seed Company Inc | $156,002 | 3 | n/a |
| Nest & Sparrow | $155,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Grand Rapids | $140,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Calvin Theological Seminary | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Calvary Undenominational Church | $82,908 | 5 | n/a |
| Mayflower Congregational Church | $32,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace Explorations | $32,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Network 20 International | $30,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Clear Bible Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 12% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Word Investments Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Word Investments Inc
- How much does Word Investments Inc give?
- Word Investments Inc reported 29 grants totaling $664,321 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Word Investments Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Philanthropy (39%), International (10%).
- Who are Word Investments Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cure International Inc ($331k), Seed Company Inc ($156k), Nest & Sparrow ($155k).
- Does Word Investments Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Word Investments Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Word Investments Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation, Barnabas Foundation.
- Where is Word Investments Inc based?
- Word Investments Inc is based in MI.
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