· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HOPE | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF IOWA | $2,500 |
| MILTON FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PELLA LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - JANESVILLE | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF ROCKY COUNTY | $1,000 |
| CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| UMPS CARE CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CHILDRENS HOSPIT | $1,000 |
| THE FREE STORE | $500 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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,…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 61 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 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 CHRISTIAN HOME ASSN - CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THINGS MATTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jb Dahm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jb Dahm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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