· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS OF PELLA | $5,000 |
| PELLA HISTORICAL MUSEUMS | $4,000 |
| SCHOK AND AWE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +78% since the first grant, against +60% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vanden Bosch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vanden Bosch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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