· Private foundation
Allison Everett Pearson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ANDREW VOLUNTEER FIREMEN | $4,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOODBANK | $4,000 |
| FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL | $2,500 |
| GREAT RIVER THRESHERS INC | $2,500 |
| LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF | $2,000 |
| ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN | $2,000 |
| EASTON VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST | $2,000 |
| MIDWEST LUMBER MUSEUM INC | $2,000 |
| YWCA CLINTON | $2,000 |
| SARAH HARDING SENIOR LIVING | $2,000 |
| MILES COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CLUB | $2,000 |
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, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- YOYWCA OF CLINTON IOWA6× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +20%
- MFMAQUOKETA FINE ARTS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%
- MBMAQUOKETA BETTERMENT CORPORATION3× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- RCROTARY CLUB OF CLINTON IOWAone grant, 2017 · $10k
- JCJackson County Fair Associationone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
- ASAREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +74%
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.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
To provide quality child care services
To assist in the provision of a better life for iowa's low-income residents, through assistance to the community action organization located within the state.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
Reaching out to improve lives in our communities through advocacy, support and the integration of mental health, substance use and wellness services. abbe center for community mental health (mhc) serves as the safety net mental health…
The history center engages people of all ages and backgrounds by preserving and telling stories of linn county's past and connecting the past to the present and future of linn county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Andrew Volunteer Firemen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 64 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
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 YWCA OF CLINTON IOWA ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA BETTERMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANDREW VOLUNTEER FIREMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST LUMBER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED DEWITT CITIZENS LTD ↗
- Who funds Jackson County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL IN ↗
- Who funds PAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION - CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Clinton County Iowa · Ohnward Foundation · Edith Curtis Armstrong and Florence E Curtis Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Allison Everett Pearson 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.
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.