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Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
ReligionPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$100k7%
FY202416$85k25%
FY202319$144k21%
FY202216$133k13%
FY202119$94k32%
FY202017$82kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$158kHuman Services$157kReligion$129kRecreation & Sports$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kHousing & Shelter$28kEducation$27kPhilanthropy$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Resources Inc$106,50060%
Pregnancy Resources$97,50063%
St Ambrose University$26,50020%
The Friendly House of Davenport Iowa$25,00060%
The Vonderhaar Family Foundation$20,00015%
Children's Therapy Center of the Quad Cities Nfp$20,00061%
New Kingdom Trailriders$18,50062%
Hatteras Island Rescue Squad Inc$10,80041%
Genesis Garden$8,00021%
Camp Shalom Inc$8,00030%
The King's Harvest Inc$7,00030%
Puppy Jake Foundation$5,50020%
Vera French Foundation$5,00011%
Empowering Abilities$5,00010%
Special Olympics Inc$1,00010%
Historic Hopewell Foundation Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($273k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Resources Inc: $106,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPregnancy Resources: $97,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSt Ambrose University: $26,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friendly House of Davenport Iowa: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Vonderhaar Family Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetChildren's Therapy Center of the Quad Cities Nfp: $20,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNew Kingdom Trailriders: $18,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHatteras Island Rescue Squad Inc: $10,800 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGenesis Garden: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Shalom Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe King's Harvest Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPuppy Jake Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVera French Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEmpowering Abilities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Hopewell Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable FoundationIL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Scott County Regional Authority · Moline Foundation · Sheila Murphy Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Vonderhaar Family Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Modern Woodmen of America · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Baird 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.

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About Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation

How much does Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation give?
Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $99,865 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Human Services (25%), Religion (20%).
Who are Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Family Resources Inc ($107k), Pregnancy Resources ($98k), St Ambrose University ($27k).
Does Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation, Quad Cities Community Foundation, United Way Quad Cities.
Where is Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation based?
Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation is based in IA.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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