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Ruth & Albert Vantieghem Sr Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$44kReligion$14kMembership Benefit$5kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$3kCrime & Legal$3kPhilanthropy$3kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD OF CHUCKO$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40k · 7 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +217% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
35

Total granted

$40k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+217%
+16%

Still filing today

29%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WO
    WORLD OF CHUCKO LTD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $27k · revenue +217%
  • BB
    BIX BEIDERBECKE MEMORIAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k
  • SM
    ST MARYS CHURCH STAR OF THE SEA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $4k

Funded once

  • BB
    BIX BEIDERBECKE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • EM
    EAST MOLINE SILVIS ROTARY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
The Jacksonville Children's Chorus Inc

The mission of the jacksonville children's chorus is to provide exceptional music education to children of diverse backgrounds,creating impactful performances. this is achieved through weekly rehearsals where children, ages 6-18, in the…

Arts & Culture
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

6
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
7
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

8
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
9
Grand Rapids Symphony Society

To share great music that moves the human soul and to excel at providing distinctive musical experiences, with an emphasis on live orchestra music, for diverse audiences throughout west michigan.

Arts & Culture
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Inc

To promote and encourage development, awareness, and appreciation of the art of chamber music and its role in our culture through education programs, chamber music performances, and sponsorshop of the fischoff chamber music competition.

Arts & Culture
12
Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines North High School and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 43 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIX BEIDERBECKE MUSEUM — $6,500 · OtherBIX BEIDERBECKE MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEAST MOLINE SILVIS ROTARY — $5,000 · OtherEAST MOLINE SILVIS ROTARYCENTER FOR BELGIAN CULTURE — $5,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BELGIAN CULTUREST MARYS CHURCH STAR OF THE SEA — $3,825 · OtherST MARYS CHURCH STAR OF THE SEAQUAD CITIES LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL — $2,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $2,500 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — $2,500 · OtherMOTE MARINE LAB & AQUARIUM — $1,850 · OtherSACRED HEART CHURCH — $1,750 · Other+23 more — $15,210 · Other+23 moreWORLD OF CHUCKO LTD — $26,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD OF CHUCKO LTDBIX BEIDERBECKE MEMORIAL SOCIETY — $4,020 · Arts & CultureBIX BEIDERBECKE MEMORIAL SOCIETY+1 more — $350 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $2,500 · PhilanthropyDES MOINES NORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $300 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $100 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc — $150 · HealthFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $100 · Human ServicesRBC MINISTRIES — $100 · ReligionALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$51,635Arts & Culture$30,870Philanthropy$2,500Education$400Health$150Human Services$100Religion$100Food & Nutrition$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD OF CHUCKO LTD — $26,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES NORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORLD OF CHUCKO LTD
  • Who funds BIX BEIDERBECKE MEMORIAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN
  • Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
  • Who funds DES MOINES NORTH HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Ruth & Albert Vantieghem Sr Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc1% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Ruth & Albert Vantieghem Sr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ruth & Albert Vantieghem Sr Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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