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Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
15
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,803
States reached, FY2023
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Third Reformed Church of Pella Iowa$25,8031n/a
Many Hands for Haiti$2,00010%
Jump for Kids$2,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$50010%
Crossroads of Pella$50010%
Sean Feucht Ministries Inc$5001n/a
Pella Historical Society$50010%
Special Olympics Iowa Inc$10010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

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.

Mark & Kay Decook Charitable FoundaIA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Fo · Vanden Bosch Foundation · Boat Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation 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.

About Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation

How much does Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation give?
Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $39,103 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (72%), International (13%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Third Reformed Church of Pella Iowa ($26k), Many Hands for Haiti ($2k), Jump for Kids ($2k).
Does Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda, R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc, Vermeer Charitable Foundation.
Where is Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation based?
Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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