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Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation at a glance

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Gerald & Mary VanSeveren Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Family Resources$30,000
Pregnancy Resources$20,000
Hatteras Isalnd Methodist Men$12,000
Friendly House$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Our Lady of the Seas$4,000
Humility Home Services$4,000
Childrens Therapy Center$4,000
Buxton Volunteer Fire Department$3,300
Vera French House$3,000
Camp Shalom$3,000
Hatteras Island Rescue$3,000
New Kingdom Trailriders$3,000
Individual grant recipient$1,565
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 (FY20–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Genesis Gardens: $5k → 20%Genesis Gardens: $3k → 20%Puppy Jake Foundation: $3k → 10%Puppy Jake Foundation: $3k → 10%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$568k · 22 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$568k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PR
    PREGNANCY RESOURCES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +29%
  • SA
    ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $27k · revenue +107%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TV
    The Vonderhaar Family Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • HI
    Hatteras Island Methodist Men
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • QC
    Quad Cities Veterans Center
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
2
Dakotabilities Inc

Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.

Human Services
3
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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4
David's House Ministries

To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…

Housing & Shelter
5
David's House

To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…

—
6
Salem Christian Homes Inc

Board, care and training of physically and mentally handicapped adults.

Human Services
7
Elijah Family Homes

Elijah family homes fosters hope, dignity, and self-sufficiency through stable housing and support services for families seeking recovery.

Housing & Shelter
8
Turtle Creek Valley Mental HealthMental Retardation Inc

Providing a continuum of services, care, and support that empowers individuals, families, and communities with behavioral, mental health, substance abuse, and/or developmental issues to sustain their recovery and achieve the important…

Health
9
Family Haven Inc

To provide a loving home-like atmosphere where adults with developmental disabilities can maximize their potential in the least restrictive environment. also, the adults are then able to live dignified lives within the limits of their…

Human Services
10
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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11
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
12
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Resources Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Vonderhaar Family 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

16 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. 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $106,500 · OtherFAMILY RESOURCES INCOur Lady of the Seas: $62,100 · OtherOur Lady of the SeasHatteras Island Methodist Ministry: $30,500 · OtherHatteras Island Methodist MinistryHandicap Development Center: $30,000 · OtherHandicap Development CenterHumility Home Services: $28,000 · OtherHumility Home ServicesTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $25,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWAProject Renewal: $22,000 · OtherBuxton Volunteer Fire Department: $21,031 · OtherCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $20,000 · OtherNEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS: $18,500 · Other+13 more: $84,635 · Other+13 morePREGNANCY RESOURCES: $97,500 · HealthPREGNANCY RESOURCESHATTERAS ISLAND RESCUE SQUAD INC: $10,800 · HealthHATTERAS ISLAND RESC…EMPOWERING ABILITIES: $5,000 · HealthST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · EducationThe Vonderhaar Family Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCAMP SHALOM INC: $8,000 · ReligionTHE KING'S HARVEST INC: $7,000 · ReligionGenesis Garden: $8,000 · Human ServicesPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHISTORIC HOPEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$448,266Health$113,300Education$26,500Philanthropy$20,000Religion$15,000Human Services$13,500Recreation & Sports$1,000Arts & Culture$500

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

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
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 FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
  • Who funds The Vonderhaar Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
  • Who funds NEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS ↗
  • Who funds HATTERAS ISLAND RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds Genesis Garden ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KING'S HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vera French Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HOPEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Clas…Quad Cities Community…United Way Quad CitiesScott County Regional…Moline FoundationSheila Murphy Foundat…The Vonderhaar Family…Grant & Virginia Bris…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Doris & Victor Day Fo…American Water Charit…Baird Foundation Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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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