Iowa · Nonprofit
FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA
FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,728 to it, the largest being VERMEER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Families First of Pella does
Mission
Serve pella's community by helping build strong family bonds, strengthen parenting skills, encourage parent involvement in schools, promote school success, increase healthy communication, motivate youth to actively serve others and enhance perceived self-worth of children and adults.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided various family oriented activities throughout the year to enhance family relationships and build stronger families in the pella area. Activities included father/daughter dance, mother/son bowling, family open gyms, school parenting handouts, parent education sessions, community meet and eat programs and other local events.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $50k to $64k (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA?
- FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,728 to it, the largest being VERMEER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $92,728 in grants to FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA?
- VERMEER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES FIRST OF PELLA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing