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Bedell World Citizenship Fund at a glance

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Bedell World Citizenship Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$87kEnvironment$37kHuman Services$35kAnimals$20kCommunity Improvement$17kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–21, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NAMM FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%BEDELL FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 7%TRAIL OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $1k → 15%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $9k → 14%NAMM FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NAMM FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Bedell World Citizenship Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bedell World Citizenship Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 5 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$94k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-58%
+44%

Still filing today

60%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentScience & TechCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IR
    IOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $58k · revenue -76%
  • OF
    OKOBOJI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $13k
  • IL
    IOWA LAKES CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT COR
    4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue -58%

Funded once

  • CF
    Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -49%
  • IN
    IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +121%
  • LW
    Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +44%
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.

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Great Outdoors Iowa

To support the conservation, programming and outdoor recreational efforts of Polk County Conservation by securing sustainable funding through grants, donations, and partnerships.

Recreation & Sports
2
Iowa Parks and Recreation Assoc

To assist members in the development of their careers and to support lasting parks and recreation systems.

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3
Iowa Outlaws Inc
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4
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
5
Iowa Policy Project

The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…

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6
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
7
Iowa Confluence Water Trails

Icon water trails is a regionally inclusive recreational confluence connecting culture, conservation, and adventure by empowering our waterways.

Environment
8
Iowa Bird Rehabilitation

The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…

Animals
9
Ozark Regional Land Trust Inc Dba Ozark Land Trust

Ozark regional land trust's mission is to empower people to protect the natural resources of the ozarks forever. this is accomplished through various methods including conservation easements and nature preserves.

Environment
10
Iowa Great Lakes Chamber of Commerce

To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.

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11
Owasco Lake Watershed Management Council Inc

To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…

Environment
12
Iowa Rural Water Association

To provide the highest quality leadership in support of iowa's water and wastewater industries through the provision of technical assistance, training, education, legislative, regulatory and public affairs, and assistance in economic…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Okoboji Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $57,880 · Arts & CultureIOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATIO…HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCamp Foster Young Mens Christ…NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation: $21,500 · Human ServicesNAMM Foundation A Not-For-Pro…THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $8,996 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesOKOBOJI FOUNDATION: $12,750 · OtherOKOBOJI FOUND…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Okoboji Protective Association: $1,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURAL …Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $10,000 · AnimalsLewa Wildl…SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE R…IOWA LAKES CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT COR: $12,000 · Community ImprovementAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $10,000 · Science & TechFRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC: $500 · Education
Arts & Culture$65,880Human Services$56,496Other$25,250Environment$25,000Animals$20,000Community Improvement$12,000Science & Tech$10,000Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $57,880 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation: $21,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA LAKES CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT COR: $12,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $8,996 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOkoboji Protective Association: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Maser Family Foundati…Peterson Family Found…Andrea Waitt Carlton …Sioux Falls Area Comm…The Sherwood Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Maser Family Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bedell World Citizenship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bedell World Citizenship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bedell World Citizenship Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Bedell World Citizenship Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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