· Private foundation
The Van Buren Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF KEOSAUQUA | $40,000 |
| VILLAGES OF VAN BUREN | $39,000 |
| VBC TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $38,000 |
| VAN BUREN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $35,373 |
| VAN BUREN COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $34,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FARMINGTON EMERGENCY RESPONDERS | $15,000 |
| CITY OF FARMINGTON - EMS | $14,000 |
| BONAPARTE COMM IMPROVEMENT ASSN | $12,493 |
| INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN | $10,000 |
| CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $6,000 |
| MILTON LIONS CLUB | $6,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +13% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVILLAGES OF VAN BUREN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $213k · revenue +39% · 27% of their budget
- IHINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +1%
- WPWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $9k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- VBVAN BUREN CONSERVATION BOARDone grant, 2020 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $18k
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.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Provide a liberal arts education with globally focused endeavors to provide an intellectually stimulating environment, promoting student competencies in communication, as well as critical and analytical thinking.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
Equip students to live, learn, and grow in their faith, service, and calling through a Bachelor of Arts in Business framed by a Christian worldview with no student loans.
To provide a dynamic learning environment built on our aeronautical heritage that inspires a diverse and committed community of students to achieve success as leaders in the industries we serve.
The mission of cumberland university is to provide a personalized, high-quality, value-based educational experience that equips learners to lead, serve, and excel in an ever-evolving world.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
Raritan Valley Community College is an educational community that works to develop critical thinking, foster intellectual curiosity, promote leadership, encourage social responsibility and support personal growth.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 119 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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Van Buren Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Van Buren Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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