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Vanden Bosch 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $51,885 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| PELLA REC | $30,000 |
| PELLA CHRISTIAN GIVING DAY | $15,000 |
| MANY HANDS FOR HAITI | $10,000 |
| PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS OF PELLA | $5,000 |
| THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PELLA HISTORICAL MUSEUMS | $4,000 |
| SCHOK AND AWE | $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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS8× · 2018–2025 · $178k · revenue +255%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +4%
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- NNUDLone grant, 2023 · $12k
- PDPELLA DOG PARK ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- OMOPERATION MOBILIZATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
The pella christian high school foundation exists to provide resources for the long-term existence of pella christian high school. the foundation's role is to actively encourage, receive, and steward charitable support to enhance the…
Historic pella trust was organized to protect and preserve pella's heritage by preserving historic building sites, so that future generations will continue to honor the time and talent of our forefathers.
Connecting people through collaborative community based projects centered around art, public gathering spaces, and special events to strengthen pella's unique public life, assets, economy, and culture.
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…
To provide an academically challenging, classical education to students, grades pre-k through 12.
The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.
To promote an enjoyable, safe and supportive environment for the students at the pella community schools by working together with parents, teachers, and administrators.
The mission is to connect those who could use a hand with those willing to lend a hand.
To instruct students in a private school setting, providing educational programs for grade prek through grade 12. teaching is based on the principles of god's word and incorporated into the daily classroom through devotions and chapel.
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…
The mission of phca is to teach biblical truth in an environment of academic excellence that prepares students to impact the world for christ.
To support the Christian home and church by preparing students to lead Christ-like lives through a biblical approach to education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pella Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wonder Spelen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PELLA REC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WONDER SPELEN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MANY HANDS FOR HAITI ↗
- Who funds SCHOK AND AWE INC ↗
- Who funds Cultivating Hope Foundation Inc ↗
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: Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Boat Foundation Inc · Pella Community Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · Creative Providers Foundation · Weiler Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Fo · Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable 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 Vanden Bosch 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.
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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