· Private foundation
B D Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISF-BLUE RIBBON FOUNDATION | $77,425 |
| JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| NEWTON DEVELOPMENT CORP | $5,000 |
| PROJECT AWAKE | $5,000 |
| OPEN ARMS JASPER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PHEASANTS FOREVER | $4,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| NEWTON COMMUNITY THEATER | $2,000 |
| IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BRBLUE RIBBON FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $233k
- NMNewton Main Street6× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue -14% · 57% of their budget
- ISIOWA STATE FAIR4× · 2020–2023 · $103k
Funded once
- MOMERCY ONEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ISIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +76%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Educational and cultural for iowa sculpture festival held annually in newton, iowa
Agriculture promotion
Support the newton public library
Increase the quantity and quality of housing in newton, iowa
Iowa PTA group for a Newton Iowa Community School
To create a city in better balance with the natural world by making significant and measurable improvements in the way we, in Newton, use resources.
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
To provide the public an intergenerational garden environment that is welcoming, beautiful, calm, educational, recreational, and fun.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Newton Main Street ↗
- Who funds JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds NEWTON ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEWTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KICK IT FORWARD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Fnnb Foundation · Schiller Family Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization B D Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B D Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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