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Voorhees Family 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.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$142kArts & Culture$65kPublic Benefit$48kReligion$45kRecreation & Sports$25kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$24kInternational$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Iowa College Foundation$13,000
Hillsdale College$10,000
UNI Foundation$10,000
Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation$6,000
Cedar Falls Historical Society$5,000
Mount Mercy University$5,000
Cedar Falls Bible Conference$5,000
ABI Foundation$4,500
Water for Good$4,000
Red Bird Mission$4,000
Boys Town$3,500
Novo Mission Inc$3,500
Young America's Foundation$3,000
Foundation for Economic Education$3,000
Mercatus Center at George Mason University$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Camp Courageous of Iowa: $3k → 11%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Camp Courageous: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
MI
IA
IN
CA
NE
KY
VA
AR
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$454k · 30 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
7

Total granted

$454k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-3%

Still filing today

80%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • IC
    IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +15%
  • IF
    IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +150%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • RC
    RIVERVIEW CONFERENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • TE
    TAX EDUCATION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Grand View University

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

Education
4
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
5
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
6
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
7
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
8
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

9
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
10
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
11
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

12
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsAddiction Recovery ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesChristian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development CentersLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%0%<5yr9%0%5–10yr14%7%10–20yr12%17%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr39%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%0%<5yr9%0%5–10yr14%8%10–20yr12%12%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr39%50%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
6%
1,704/29,174

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $49,000 · OtherIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $46,000 · OtherCEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETYUNI Foundation — $40,000 · OtherUNI FoundationCEDAR FALLS BIBLE CONFERENCE — $25,000 · OtherCEDAR FALLS BIBLE CONFERENCEIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATION — $21,000 · OtherIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATIONABI Foundation — $19,000 · OtherABI FoundationRED BIRD MISSION INC — $16,000 · OtherNOVO MISSION INC — $16,000 · Other+17 more — $110,256 · Other+17 moreMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $26,000 · EducationMOUND FARM HOLDIN…IOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationIOWA GOLF ASSOCIA…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEJOB FOUNDATION — $9,000 · EducationJOB FOUNDATIONPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · EducationFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $12,500 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA — $9,000 · Human ServicesFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $11,500 · Social ScienceMercatus Center Inc — $7,500 · Social ScienceBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY — $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentLeadership Institute — $9,000 · Public BenefitTAX EDUCATION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION — $5,000 · Public BenefitWATER FOR GOOD — $11,500 · International
Other$342,256Education$79,000Human Services$21,500Social Science$19,000Youth Development$14,500Public Benefit$14,000International$11,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $49,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $46,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetRED BIRD MISSION INC — $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY — $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FOR GOOD — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CRUSADERS — $9,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOB FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE — $7,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY — $6,500 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTAX EDUCATION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha USA — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY — $3,256 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNaples Concert Band Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC
  • Who funds IOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RED BIRD MISSION INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc
  • Who funds WATER FOR GOOD
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds JOB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA
  • Who funds Mercatus Center Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TAX EDUCATION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds Alpha USA
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY
  • Who funds Naples Concert Band Inc

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.

Lsb FoundationIA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lsb Foundation · New Hope Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation · The Gallagher Family Foundation · The Braun Family Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation · Boaz's Harvest-Zachary Foundation · Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation

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 Voorhees Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Voorhees Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Voorhees Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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