· Private foundation
Vandevoort Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $70,300 |
| VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $63,830 |
| VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,990 |
| PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| PARADISE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PELLA COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| WESLEY LIFE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB | $1,500 |
| CENTRAL CLUB | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA | $500 |
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, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PHPELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +122%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +60%
- PVPARADISE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +34%
- NHNEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $15k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.
To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion
Pcgs together with the parents, provides excellent academic training rooted in god's infallible word, challenging students to develop their individual god-given gifts for a life of service in god's kingdom
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
See schedule o.saint peter's university, inspired by its jesuit, catholic identity, commitment to individual attention, and grounding in the liberal arts, educates a diverse community of learners in undergraduate, graduate and professional…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
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…
Point loma nazarene university exists to provide higher education in a vital christian community where minds are engaged and challenged, character is modeled and formed, and service becomes an expression of faith. we aspire to be a…
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
The mission of royal palm academy is to partner with families to provide an education of rich academics with catholic formation. we teach the mind, educate the heart, and form the character of tomorrow's leaders.
Organization's mission: peirce college empowers adult learners to improve their lives by achieving career goals through academic offerings aligned with evolving workforce needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARADISE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Kids With Purpose International ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL CLUB ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE 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: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Boat Foundation Inc · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Vandevoort 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.