Iowa · Private foundation
Vermeer Charitable 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.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 122
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Vermeer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 120 | $5.2M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $1.7M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $1.2M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $2.1M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $1.3M | 64% |
| FY2017 | 83 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pella Christian Grade School | $1,096,400 | 7 | 7% |
| The Society of Pella Christian Schools | $923,250 | 7 | 4% |
| City of Pella | $833,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Central College | $718,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dordt University | $668,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $561,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Northwestern College | $557,024 | 7 | 0% |
| Des Moines Christian Schools | $532,100 | 6 | 1% |
| Trinity Christian College Association | $514,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Pella Community Center Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 32% |
Show all 176 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 111 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vermeer Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Weiler Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Boat Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Vanden Bosch Foundation
How this is measured
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About Vermeer Charitable Foundation
- How much does Vermeer Charitable Foundation give?
- Vermeer Charitable Foundation reported 122 grants totaling $5,173,435 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Vermeer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Public Benefit (8%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Vermeer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pella Christian Grade School ($1.1M), The Society of Pella Christian Schools ($923k), City of Pella ($834k).
- Does Vermeer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vermeer Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vermeer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pella Rolscreen Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Weiler Foundation.
- Where is Vermeer Charitable Foundation based?
- Vermeer Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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