· Private foundation
Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND | $1,500 |
| CARE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| 43 NORTH IOWA | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH IOWA | $500 |
| ONE VISION | $500 |
| LIME CREEK NATURE CENTER | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +330%
- HHHAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +84%
- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- FLFRANCIS LAUER YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
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.
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…
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
Healthy harvest of north iowa strives to lead and strengthen diverse partnerships to build a sustainable regional and local food system that brings health and vitality to communities, and to be a resource for creating, developing and…
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.
To strengthen Iowa's families and communities by providing free legal help that protects housing, safety, and income-and empowers people to build stable, independent lives. With 10 offices serving all 99 Iowa counties, Iowa Legal Aid helps…
End hunger together.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Iowa ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
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: Cft Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Stratford Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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