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Bomgaars Family Foundation at a glance

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Bomgaars Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$279k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$180kHuman Services$108kFood & Nutrition$99kHousing & Shelter$87kEducation$45kYouth Development$24kAnimals$18kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAITI HEALTH MINISTRIES$55,000
THE WARMING SHELTER INC$50,000
HAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$20,000
LE MARS COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER INC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CRITTENTION EMERGENCY SHELTER$12,000
SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN$10,000
NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF SIOUXLAND$10,000
THE GOSPEL MISSION$10,000
BOUNTIFUL FOOD PANTRY$10,000
HOPE STREET OF SIOUXLAND$10,000
BUENA VISTA COUNTY AG SOCIETY$10,000
YOUTH RECERATION INC$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LE MARS COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER INC: $20k → 7%GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 13%THE GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$433k · 12 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$433k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HH
    HAITI HEALTH MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $160k · revenue +1%
  • TW
    THE WARMING SHELTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $66k · revenue +119%
  • SC
    SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • HH
    HAITI HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • MF
    MY FRIEND ABBY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +28%
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
Hubbard County Food Shelf

Receive and dispense food to needy clients

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2
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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3
Dubuque Food Pantry

Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area

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4
Decorah Community Food Pantry

Share food with local iowans facing food insecurity. we strive to interact with clients in a welcoming and respectful manner.

Human Services
5
Southwest Carver County Food Shelf

Food shelf providing food assistance to people in need in carver county.

Food & Nutrition
6
Fayette County Food Shelf

To distribute food and clothing to the needy residents of fayette county

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Iowa Shelter & Services

The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.

Housing & Shelter
8
Humane Society of North Central Iow

Provide for shelter, food, veterinary services and adoption of small animals. this shelter operates as a no kill shelter in north central iowa.

Animals
9
Siouxland Community Health Foundation

The foundation provides support for community health. it helps eliminate barriers and improves the health of the community.

Health
10
Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank

To collect and purchase food and basic necessities for distribution to disadvantaged people in the north iowa area. individuals served - 25,399

Food & Nutrition
11
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
12
Homer Community Food Pantry

To provide food, non food and aid for the needy

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Warming Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Plywood Trail Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 34 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $36,000 · OtherSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHENSALVATION ARMY OF SIOUXLAND: $21,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF SIOUXLANDFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $21,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHAITI HEALTH: $20,000 · OtherHAITI HEALTHCRITTENTION EMERGENCY SHELTER: $18,000 · OtherCRITTENTION EMERGENCY SHELTERYOUTH RECERATION INC: $14,000 · OtherMY FRIEND ABBY INC: $10,000 · OtherMOC-FV COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSHELDON UNITED FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherBUENA VISTA COUNTY AG SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherHOPE STREET: $10,000 · OtherBOUNTIFUL FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · OtherIda County Agricultural Society: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $33,000 · Other+9 moreHAITI HEALTH MINISTRIES: $160,000 · HealthHAITI HEALTH MINISTRIESTHE WARMING SHELTER INC: $66,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE WARMING SHELTE…HOPE STREET OF SIOUXLAND: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE STREET OF SIO…SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY …THE GOSPEL MISSION: $26,000 · Human ServicesLE MARS COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationHAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$263,000Health$160,000Housing & Shelter$107,000Human Services$46,000Education$35,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAITI HEALTH MINISTRIES: $160,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHE WARMING SHELTER INC: $66,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $36,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GOSPEL MISSION: $26,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE STREET OF SIOUXLAND: $21,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLE MARS COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMY FRIEND ABBY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBUENA VISTA COUNTY AG SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetIda County Agricultural Society: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEPLACE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHEROKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

Siouxland Community F…Missouri River Histor…Food Bank of Siouxlan…Waitt FoundationChristian Community F…Berenstein Family Fou…The Roth & Letch Fami…Mercy Health Services…The Chesterman Family…First Interstate Banc…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Online Givin…
Siouxland Community FoundationIA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Siouxland Community Foundation · Missouri River Historical Development Inc · Food Bank of Siouxland Inc · Waitt Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Berenstein Family Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp · The Chesterman Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Bomgaars Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bomgaars Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bomgaars Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bomgaars Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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