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Pella Community Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to preserve the heritage and enhance the quality of life for the people of pella by transferring funds from people who wish to help others, to the non-profit organizations that do.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $237,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $256,585 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,285 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF PELLA | $72,000 |
| DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $54,185 |
| THE WELL | $21,917 |
| PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER | $17,762 |
| 725 MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS OF PELLA | $12,462 |
| SPIRIT OF PELLA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PELLA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $8,860 |
| PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,084 |
| PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $6,444 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,586 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 CENTER5× · 2020–2025 · $222k · revenue +46%
- COCROSSROADS OF PELLA5× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue +37%
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TWTHE WELL-WELL WORKSone grant, 2021 · $25k
- WSWONDER SPELENone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -88%
- WWESLEYLIFEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +24%
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 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…
The pella christian high school foundation exists to provide resources for the long-term existence of pella christian high school. the foundation's role is to actively encourage, receive, and steward charitable support to enhance the…
Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…
To provide an academically challenging, classical education to students, grades pre-k through 12.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
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…
The community betterment organization ("cbo") was formed to support central college, the city of pella, and pella regional health center, to engage in activities that such organizations would strive to engage in themselves were it not for…
Palmetto christian academy of greenwood provides an environment of academic excellence and christian nurture to prepare students for godly living.
To provide biblically centered quality pre-k and k-8 education for children providing a strong foundation to equip students to serve god, their families, and their communities as worthy ambassadors for christ.
The mission is to connect those who could use a hand with those willing to lend a hand.
To promote an enjoyable, safe and supportive environment for the students at the pella community schools by working together with parents, teachers, and administrators.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pella Regional Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Wonder Spelen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds WONDER SPELEN ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds 725 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
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 · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Jb Dahm Foundation · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Weiler Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · Boat Foundation Inc · Vanden Bosch Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Poortinga Family Foundation · Barnabas 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 Pella Community 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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