· Private foundation
The Vonderhaar Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Joan of Arc Foundation | $150,000 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Church | $34,000 |
| University of Iowa NICU | $30,000 |
| Food for the Poor | $20,000 |
| First Tee of the Quad Cities | $20,000 |
| Riverbend Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Childrens Therapy Center | $10,000 |
| Quad Cities Golf Charitable Classic | $10,000 |
| Assumption High School | $5,000 |
| Hope at the Brick House | $5,000 |
| Seton Catholic School | $5,000 |
| QC Veterans Outreach | $5,000 |
| Safe Families for Children | $3,000 |
| Serra Club | $2,000 |
| Kahl Home | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- QCQUAD CITIES LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT3× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +105%
- CTCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +20%
- HAHOPE AT THE BRICK HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- FRFAMILY RESOURCES INCone grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue -1%
- SCSCOTT COUNTY HOUSING COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
- HIHAND IN HANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +162%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We partner with individuals of all abilities to reach their fullest potential, protecting their rights and promoting their independence and inclusion in our community.
Provide services in response to individual need
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
The organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
The organization is dedicated to alleviating the conditions and causes of poverty by building partnerships and strengthening people through quality services. community action of southeast iowa administers programs funded or supported by…
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Active Seniors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds HOPE AT THE BRICK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds LIFE & FAMILY EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTT COUNTY HOUSING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CAFE ON VINE ↗
- Who funds KAHL HOME FOR THE AGED AND INFIRM ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Modern Woodmen of America · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Baird Foundation Inc · Weigle Family Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Moline Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc
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 The Vonderhaar Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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