· Private foundation
Harry Vermeer Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $56,000 |
| LUKE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $42,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER | $22,000 |
| WORLD RENEW | $13,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| RAISE UP GLOBAL MINISTRIES NKA RESONATE LEARNING PROGRAMS | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $7,500 |
| PELLA FOOD SHELF | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE WELL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +14%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
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.
Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
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.
Christian day school
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Rehoboth Christian School Assoc ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds SCHOK AND AWE 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry Vermeer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry Vermeer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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