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Vogel Charities Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$555k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.8MReligion$1.0MEnvironment$125kHealth$26kPhilanthropy$22kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $9k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$750
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $25k → 8%GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 13%ZESTOS INC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 6 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$2.3M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
-13%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • TL
    THE LUKE SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +52%
  • TI
    TORCHBEARERS INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue ×824

Funded once

  • SC
    SIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -63%
  • SC
    SIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • VN
    VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
2
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
3
Sioux Center Christian School

Christian education grade school

Education
4
Valor Christian High School in

To educate students in a biblical worldview, to high academic standards, with good character, as preparation to live victorious lives as christian adults.

Education
5
Lake Country Christian School Inc

Christian School

Education
6
Omaha Christian Academy

K-8 school

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7
Alaska Christian College

To empower alaska natives through bibically based higher education and christian formation to pursue excellence in character, learning, and service as followers of christ.

Religion
8
Midwest University

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…

Education
9
Oak Valley College

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.

Education
10
San Diego Christian College

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.

Education
11
Ozarks Christian Academy

Christian school

Education
12
Luther Classical College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Luke Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $805,000 · OtherTHE LUKE SOCIETY INCIndividual grant recipient: $555,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL+11 more: $60,535 · OtherNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $1,101,500 · EducationNORTHWESTERN COLLEGEUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLTORCHBEARERS INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · ReligionSIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EnvironmentVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $25,000 · Human ServicesZESTOS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOSPEL MISSION: $1,000 · Human ServicesLUVERNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMAYO CLINIC: $750 · HealthPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,920,535Education$1,251,500Religion$200,000Environment$75,000Human Services$27,000Philanthropy$20,000Health$750Arts & Culture$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $1,101,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $805,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUVERNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKOBOJI BIBLE CONFERENCE MINISTRIES: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZESTOS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOSPEL MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vogel FoundationPremier Communication…Siouxland Community F…Demco Charitable Foun…Sanford Group ReturnBarnabas FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Edward Jones Foundati…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
Vogel FoundationIA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vogel Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vogel Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Vogel Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Vogel Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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