· Private foundation
Jb Dahm 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF PELLA | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF DES MOINES | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF IOWA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HOPE | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF PELLA LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| MILTON FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UMPS CARE CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - JANESVILLE | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF ROCKY COUNTY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CHILDRENS HOSPIT | $1,000 |
| THE FREE STORE | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- PRPELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +75%
- COCROSSROADS OF PELLA6× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +34%
- HMHOPE MINISTRIES2× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- PDPELLA DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUMSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WSWONDER SPELENone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -75%
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.
The pella community day care center, dba: pella early learning center's mission statement is to provide quality childcare and maintain high standards for the child, parent/guardian, staff and community in a developmentally appropriate…
To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion
Dedicated to providing access to affordable, compassionate, high quality health care for all.
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
The organization's mission is to perserve, enhance and support the city of pella's community center, an historic facility at 712 union street in pella, ia. the facility houses the community's arts, cultural, educational and social services…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.
To provide services and facilities for people whose capabilities and needs vary widely. lcc strives to make the lives of people more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure through development of innovative programs delivered with…
Pica provides comprehensive early childhood and family development services that empower children and families to reach their full potential.(expanded mission on schedule o)pica supports parents and their communities in defining their…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The dubuque community y, utilizing christian principles, creates opportunities for growth, leadership, and empowerment for women, men, and youth by building healthy spirit, mind, and body with emphasis on respect, responsibility, caring,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Home Assn - Children's Square Usa and the most unlike its peers is Pta Texas Congress. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 61 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 PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WONDER SPELEN ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HOME ASSN - CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THINGS MATTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PTA TEXAS CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Pella Community Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · Weiler Foundation · Boat Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Marion County Bank Charitable Found · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Meredith Corporation 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 Jb Dahm 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.