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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +46% since the first grant, against -44% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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…
To provide an academically challenging, classical education to students, grades pre-k through 12.
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…
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
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…
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…
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
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.
Palmetto christian academy of greenwood provides an environment of academic excellence and christian nurture to prepare students for godly living.
The mission is to connect those who could use a hand with those willing to lend a hand.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 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 725 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pella Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pella Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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