· Private foundation
Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| IOWA NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOLDEN CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| PELLA FOOD SHELF | $2,000 |
| PELLA COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| THIRD CHURCH | $2,000 |
| PELLA OPERA HOUSE COMMISSION | $2,000 |
| REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA | $2,000 |
| IOWA PBS | $2,000 |
| THE WELL | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +60% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +7%
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +278%
- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- RRCSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF COAL RIDGE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion
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…
Create peer-to-peer opportunities in iowa for advancing hope, recovery and wellness for all people; including anyone who has struggled with emotional distress, psychiatric diagnosis, substance abuse, trauma or a variety of other life…
Platte community memorial hospital, inc. is a health ministry rooted in the gospel. our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by christian values.
The mission of theater latte' da is to create new connections between story, music, artist and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
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…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
At pelotonia we're driven by our mission: to engage, inspire, and challenge a community committed to change the world by accelerating innovative cancer research.
Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.
To provide quality residential services for individuals with a mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and/or the elderly, as well as those individuals with other difficulties that will allow them to live…
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 70 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 CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELLA OPERA HOUSE COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNION STREET PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds MANY HANDS FOR HAITI ↗
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 · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Boat Foundation Inc · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Weiler Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Community Foundation · Jb Dahm Foundation · Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation · Vanden Bosch Foundation · Jason and Carolyn Andringa Foundation · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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