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Harry Vermeer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUKE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $34,000 |
| PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $31,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $30,000 |
| WORLD RENEW | $13,000 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TIMOTHY LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CARY CHRISTIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| DEGAGE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| GILBERT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE WELL | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TLTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +14%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +6%
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $89k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF PELLA COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $20k
- PCPELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL LEGACY OF GRACEone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Christian day school
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
To instruct students in a private school setting, providing educational programs for grade prek through grade 12. teaching is based on the principles of god's word and incorporated into the daily classroom through devotions and chapel.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvin Theological Seminary and the most unlike its peers is Raise Up Global Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RAISE UP GLOBAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Gilbert Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Rehoboth Christian School Assoc ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Halcyon Foundation Attn Thomas Larson · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Stewardship Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jason and Carolyn Andringa Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Cornucopia Family Foundation
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 Harry Vermeer Family Foundation 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.
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