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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.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MReligion$973kEnvironment$319kArts & Culture$277kHuman Services$112kPhilanthropy$98kCommunity Improvement$94kHousing & Shelter$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NWC$127,500
LUKE SOCIETY$20,000
HOPE HAVEN$15,000
JUSTICE FOR ALL$15,000
FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ORANGE CITY$15,000
ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY$14,000
WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$12,500
ARNOLDS PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW HOPE E FREE CHURCH$10,000
DOVER CHURCH$10,000
LIVING HISTORY FARMS$10,000
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK$8,500
RISE MINISTRIES$7,500
WORDS OF HOPE$5,000
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DWELLING PLACE: $1k → 7%ACTION MOBILITY FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS - OMAHA: $9k → 12%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY: $200 → 7%THE BRIDGE OF STORM LAKE: $500 → 10%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY: $200 → 7%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY: $200 → 7%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $1k → 8%PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $100 → 13%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $1k → 8%RED CROSS: $3k → 7%JUSTICE FOR ALL: $15k → 8%JUSTICE FOR ALL: $3k → 8%JUSTICE FOR ALL: $2k → 8%JUSTICE FOR ALL: $850 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 10%ZESTOS: $250 → 8%ZESTOS: $200 → 8%ONE BODY ONE HOPE: $5k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $17k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $14k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $14k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $13k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $11k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $10k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $8k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $8k → 8%ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
OK
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 112 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
148

Total granted

$3.6M
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

35%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • TL
    THE LUKE SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +52%
  • DU
    DORDT UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +66%
  • UC
    UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $132k · revenue +17%
  • UC
    UNITED CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • AC
    ALLIANCE-REIMAGINE CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Iowa Association of Christian Schools

To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.

Education
3
United Way of North Central 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…

Philanthropy
4
Iowa Mennonite School

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.

Education
5
Iowa Association of Christian Schools Foundation

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…

Education
6
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
7
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
8
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
9
The Human Choice of Iowa

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…

Human Services
10
Mid-America Christian University Inc

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.

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11
Cornerstone Christian Schools

Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.

Education
12
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Christian Schools; 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.
04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
52/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NWC: $987,400 · OtherNWCTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $192,050 · OtherTHE LUKE SOCIETY INCDUTCH AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherFIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ORANGE CITY: $98,500 · Other+162 more: $1,461,201 · Other+162 moreDORDT UNIVERSITY: $166,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSIT…UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $143,250 · EducationUNITY CHRISTIAN…NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $131,850 · EducationNORTHWESTERN CO…DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50,000 · EducationDES MOINES CHRI…GORDON COLLEGE: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $44,800 · Education+6 moreSIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $201,000 · EnvironmentSIOUX COU…KEEP IOWA BEAUTIFUL: $118,000 · EnvironmentKEEP IOWA…ATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $101,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $37,500 · Human ServicesJUSTICE FOR ALL NW IOWA CHAPTER: $19,950 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $9,250 · Human ServicesLove INC of Sheboygan County Inc: $8,000 · Human Services+7 more: $12,750 · Human ServicesLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,825 · Arts & CultureBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterGENESIS HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $11,500 · ReligionRISE MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 · Religion
Other$2,839,151Education$560,900Environment$319,000Human Services$188,950Arts & Culture$61,825Housing & Shelter$26,000Religion$20,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $201,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $192,050 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $166,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $143,250 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $131,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEEP IOWA BEAUTIFUL: $118,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetATLAS OF ORANGE CITY: $101,500 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetHOPE HAVEN INC: $65,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $52,509 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $52,212 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCROWN COLLEGE: $41,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL NW IOWA CHAPTER: $19,950 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCreighton University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $9,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $9,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetINSPIRATION HILLS INC: $9,180 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRISE MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLove INC of Sheboygan County Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetRehoboth Christian School Assoc: $6,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE CITY ARTS COUNCIL: $5,700 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetONE BODY ONE HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetORANGE CITY COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $5,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH INC HOSPICE: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dwelling Place: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGENESIS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLISION MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE COLLECTIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSS IOWA (SSN-797) COMMISSIONING COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $600 over 3y, 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.

  • 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 LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL NW IOWA CHAPTER ↗

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.

Barnabas FoundationInterstates FoundationPella Rolscreen Found…Community Fdn of Grea…Arlan J Van Wyk Famil…Demco Charitable Foun…Siouxland Community F…Premier Communication…Vogel Charities IncFood Bank of Siouxlan…Advisors Charitable G…Sanford Group Return
Barnabas FoundationIL31.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vogel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Gordon College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 264 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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