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· Private foundation
VANDEN BOSCH FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$109k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
2
Communities
$53k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$231kArts & Culture$36kYouth Development$30kHealth$27kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$18kHuman Services$4kOther$186k
02FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$397k
Total assets
Largest grants
- PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$53,453
- CALVIN UNIVERSITY$40,000
- PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
- THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
- CROSSROADS OF PELLA$5,000
- SCHOK AND AWE$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$520k · 13 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
8
Total granted
$520k
$33k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+74%
+39%
Still filing today
69%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +1%
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +74%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES4× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- NNUDLone grant, 2023 · $12k
- PDPELLA DOG PARK ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PCPELLA CHRISTIAN GIVING DAYone 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.
1
Pella Christian High School Society
A christian education with a comprehensive 9-12 education program, our mission is to provide students with a christ-centered education and to prepare them for life-long christian service.
Education
2
Pella Regional Health Center
To provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion
Health
3
Grace Classical Christan Academy
The operation of a school to educate children from pre-kindergarten through high school with an emphasis on an historic christian worldview and related vigorous classical curriculum. during the current school year we had students enrolled…
Education
4
Christian Scholars Foundation
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5
Classical Christian Academy
Education
6
Friends of the Pella Community
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…
Public Benefit
7
Lasell University
We immerse students in experiential and collaborative learning that fosters lifelong intellectual exploration and social responsibility.
Education
8
Grace Christian School
To assist christian parents by providing a sound academic education in a christ-centered environment designed to prepare our young people to know god and to live in obedience to his will for their lives.
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9
Parkview Christian School
To partner with parents in moving students toward their God given potential through Biblical instructions, character accountability, challenging curriculum and appropriate co-curricular opportunities.
Education
10
Spirit of Pella
Develop and reimagine creative patterns, spaces, and experiences while embracing community participation to foster growth for the betterment of the pella area.
Philanthropy
11
Claflin University
Claflin university is an independent, liberal arts, co-educational, historically black institution that is affiliated with the united methodist church. it is dedicated to educational excellence and to preparing students without regard to…
Education
12
Pella Parent Teacher Organization
To promote an enjoyable, safe and supportive environment for the students at the pella community schools by working together with parents, teachers, and administrators.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pella Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Calvin University. 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
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$231,273Other$186,000Arts & Culture$36,000Youth Development$30,000Health$27,000Community Improvement$20,000Philanthropy$18,000Human Services$4,100
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 PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds WONDER SPELEN ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOK AND AWE ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Vermeer Charitable FoundationIA22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper · Pella Community Foundation · Creative Providers Foundation · Boat Foundation Inc · Jason and Carolyn Andringa Foundation · Weiler Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 830615398 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Vanden Bosch Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Vanden Bosch Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines