· Private foundation
Vogel 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of VOGEL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NWC | $127,500 |
| LUKE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| JUSTICE FOR ALL | $15,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN | $15,000 |
| FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ORANGE CITY | $15,000 |
| ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY | $14,000 |
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $12,500 |
| NEW HOPE E FREE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ARNOLDS PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DOVER CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LIVING HISTORY FARMS | $10,000 |
| MULTIPLICATION NETWORK | $8,500 |
| RISE MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TLTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +52%
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +66%
- UCUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $132k · revenue +17%
- UCUNITED CAMPAIGNone grant, 2024 · $50k
- ACALLIANCE-REIMAGINE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
To offer high school students an academically excellent, christ-centered education. within a caring community, hillcrest academy prepares students for lives of christian discipleship, peacemaking and service.
The purpose of the Corporation is to service the evolving needs of nonpublic school start-ups, foster the sustainability and growth of existing schools, and to provide support, education, and collaboration opportunities to Christian…
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…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 264 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEEP IOWA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL NW IOWA CHAPTER ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · Interstates Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Arlan J Van Wyk Family Foundation · Demco Charitable Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Premier Communications Foundation · Vogel Charities Inc · Food Bank of Siouxland Inc · Advisors Charitable Gift Fund · Sanford Group Return
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 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.
- Gordon College — 1% 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.