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Poortinga Family 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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$696kEducation$214kHuman Services$202kHealth$75kArts & Culture$14kFood & Nutrition$3kPhilanthropy$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PELLA REC$100,000
THIRD CHURCH$27,500
725 MINISTRIES$10,000
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
SPIRIT OF PELLA$2,044
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$2,000
PELLA OPERA HOUSE$1,000
UNION STREET PLAYERS$700
HOUSE OF REFUGE$500
CENTRAL COLLEGE$500
LIFE 1071$490
WESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION$260
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $17k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 12 repeat orgs$453k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$903k
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+44%

Still filing today

33%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CENTRAL COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +7%
  • W
    WESLEYLIFE
    2× · 2017–2021 · $151k · revenue +57%
  • TW
    THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +285%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BRIDGE
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • TR
    THIRD REFORMED CHURCH OF PELLA IOWA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SA
    SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pella Regional Health Center

The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.

Health
2
Friends of the Pella Community Center Inc

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…

Public Benefit
3
Pella Hospital Foundation

To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion

Health
4
Sunrise Village

Serving others together in faith, community and life.

Housing & Shelter
5
Pella Community Day Care Center

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…

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6
Wellspire Llc

Guided by christian compassion, wellspire supports the independence, health, and well-being of older adults wherever they call home.

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7
Crossroads of Pella

Crossroads of pella is community supported, and a first call source of help and encouragement for area residents. the organization provides a first- call-for-help referral service, counseling, and development of educational and service…

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8
Community Betterment Organization

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…

Community Improvement
9
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.

Philanthropy
10
Wesley Homes

Inspired by and grounded in faith, wesley enriches the lives of older adults through community, choice and continuing care.

Human Services
11
A Call to Serve Ministries of Iowa

The mission is to connect those who could use a hand with those willing to lend a hand.

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12
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Refuge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Union Street Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRIDGE: $250,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGECELEBRATE CHURCH: $155,000 · OtherCELEBRATE CHURCHTHIRD CHURCH: $122,500 · OtherTHIRD CHURCHRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $67,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCHTHIRD REFORMED CHURCH OF PELLA IOWA: $50,000 · OtherTHIRD REFORMED CHURCH OF PELLA IOWATHE WELL: $35,000 · Other+16 more: $53,844 · Other+16 moreWESLEYLIFE: $150,500 · HealthWESLEYLIFETHE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $75,000 · HealthTHE WELL RESOURCE …+1 more: $100 · HealthCENTRAL COLLEGE: $214,250 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGEPELLA REC: $100,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $150 · Community Improvement725 MINISTRIES: $45,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $11,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $2,500 · ReligionSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $16,700 · Human ServicesPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$733,344Health$225,600Education$214,250Community Improvement$100,150Religion$58,500Human Services$16,700Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE: $214,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWESLEYLIFE: $150,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPELLA REC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budget725 MINISTRIES: $45,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $16,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL CLUB: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCheck For a Lump: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WESLEYLIFE ↗
  • Who funds PELLA REC ↗
  • Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds 725 MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds SPIRIT OF PELLA ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRAL CLUB ↗
  • Who funds UNION STREET PLAYERS ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Check For a Lump ↗

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.

Pella Rolscreen Found…Boat Foundation IncVermeer Charitable Fo…Pella Community Found…Mark & Kay Decook Cha…R & L Vermeer Foundat…Peter H and E Lucille…Amg Charitable Gift F…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Renaissance Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…
Pella Rolscreen FoundationIA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Boat Foundation Inc · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Pella Community Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Poortinga Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Poortinga Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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