· Private foundation
Boat 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PELLA OPERA HOUSE | $1,500 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST | $1,100 |
| WESLEY LIFE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FAIR HAVEN MEMORIAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LAKE REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $500 |
| TERRACE HILL PARTNERSHIP | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $100 |
| FRIENDS OF NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE | $100 |
| PELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB | $100 |
| MOBILITY WORLDWIDE | $100 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS | $100 |
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 (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% 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.
48 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +7%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +1%- MWMOBILITY WORLDWIDE9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- WSWONDER SPELENone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -88%
- FOFRIENDS OF PELLA COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SFSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +105%
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.
The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Methodist physicians clinic provides accessible, quality medical care through its integrated team of health professionals, including specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 40 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 113 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 CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WONDER SPELEN ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILITY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNION STREET PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
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: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Vanden Bosch Foundation · Weiler Foundation · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Pella Community Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
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 Boat 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.