· Private foundation
Vogel Charities Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $555,000 |
| ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| THE LUKE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DUTCH AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ATLAS ORANGE CITY AREA | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $750 |
| FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND | $450 |
| OKOBOJI BIBLE CONFERENCE MINISTRIES | $250 |
| PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER | $100 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $35 |
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 (FY18–22, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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 +52% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE3× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
- TLTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +52%
- TITORCHBEARERS INTERNATIONAL2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue ×824
Funded once
- SCSIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -63%
- SCSIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARDone grant, 2018 · $50k
- VNVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITEDone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +23%
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.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Christian education grade school
To educate students in a biblical worldview, to high academic standards, with good character, as preparation to live victorious lives as christian adults.
Christian School
K-8 school
To empower alaska natives through bibically based higher education and christian formation to pursue excellence in character, learning, and service as followers of christ.
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
Equip students to live, learn, and grow in their faith, service, and calling through a Bachelor of Arts in Business framed by a Christian worldview with no student loans.
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
Christian school
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Luke Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western Christian High School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 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 NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TORCHBEARERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds LUVERNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OKOBOJI BIBLE CONFERENCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ZESTOS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
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: Vogel Foundation · Premier Communications Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Demco Charitable Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Barnabas Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Vogel Charities Inc 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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