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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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$63kEducation$34kRecreation & Sports$29kReligion$21kHuman Services$13kHealth$11kInternational$7kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
7
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PELLA OPERA HOUSE$1,500
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,400
PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST$1,100
PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
WESLEY LIFE FOUNDATION$1,000
FAIR HAVEN MEMORIAL GARDEN$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
TERRACE HILL PARTNERSHIP$500
LAKE REGIONAL HOSPITAL$500
Individual grant recipient$150
SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA$100
SECOND REFORMED CHURCH$100
Individual grant recipient$100
CROSSROADS OF PELLA$100
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
03

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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE: $100 → 17%LOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTY: $50 → 10%WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES: $100 → 10%WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES: $50 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $700 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $100 → 8%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $100 → 8%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $100 → 8%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $100 → 8%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $100 → 8%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $100 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CO
NE
MO
VA
NM
TN
DC
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 48 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
57

Total granted

$145k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CENTRAL COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • MW
    MOBILITY WORLDWIDE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • WS
    WONDER SPELEN
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -88%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PELLA COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • SF
    SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +105%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Pella Regional Health Center

The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.

Health
2
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
3
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Geneva College

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.

Education
6
State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education
7
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
8
Pella Hospital Foundation

To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion

Health
9
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
10
Mercy Medical Center - Centerville

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…

Health
11
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
12
Physicians Clinic Inc

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PELLA OPERA HOUSE: $29,950 · OtherPELLA OPERA HOUSESECOND REFORMED CHURCH: $11,071 · OtherSECOND REFORMED CHURCHFRIENDS OF PELLA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PELLA COMMUNITY CENTERCOAL RIDGE CHURCH: $5,350 · OtherPELLA PICKLEBALL CLUB: $4,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,600 · Other+82 more: $38,999 · Other+82 moreWONDER SPELEN: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWONDER SPELENPELLA PRESERVATION TRUST: $9,500 · Community ImprovementPELLA PRESERVATION …DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PERFORMI…CENTRAL COLLEGE: $25,050 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGEIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERS…+2 more: $150 · EducationSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $700 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureRIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC: $6,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 · HealthTHE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $300 · Health+5 more: $500 · HealthMOBILITY WORLDWIDE: $6,700 · InternationalPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $2,850 · Human ServicesMANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $600 · Human ServicesWESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES INC: $150 · Human Services+2 more: $150 · Human Services
Other$103,170Community Improvement$34,500Education$32,700Arts & Culture$13,400Health$8,150International$6,700Human Services$3,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE: $25,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWONDER SPELEN: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPELLA PRESERVATION TRUST: $9,500 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILITY WORLDWIDE: $6,700 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetRIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $2,850 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS OF PELLA: $1,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $1,366 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL CLUB: $600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE VIEW CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehoboth Christian School Assoc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Regional Health System: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Pella Rolscreen Found…Vermeer Charitable Fo…Community Fdn of Grea…Mark & Kay Decook Cha…R & L Vermeer Foundat…Vanden Bosch Foundati…Weiler FoundationPeter H and E Lucille…Meredith Corporation …Amg Charitable Gift F…Pella Community Found…The Independent Chari…
Pella Rolscreen FoundationIA41.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 113 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-PF 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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