· Private foundation
Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of CARLEEN AND EUGENE GRANDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ORCHESTRA IOWA | $156,000 |
| THEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS | $150,000 |
| EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER | $125,000 |
| ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $113,000 |
| YMCA OF CEDAR RAPIDS METRO AREA | $100,000 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE | $100,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOC | $75,000 |
| MOUNT MERCY UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC | $50,000 |
| THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA | $50,000 |
| HIS HANDS MINISTRIES | $40,500 |
| FOUR OAKS FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVCS | $35,000 |
| GROW AT KAZIMOUR FARM & ORCHARD INC | $27,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +27% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
- OIORCHESTRA IOWA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $568k · revenue +12%
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE6× · 2020–2025 · $530k · revenue +33% · 39% of their budget
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC8× · 2017–2025 · $501k · revenue +362%
Funded once
- M2MATTHEW 25graduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +86%
- GRGROWING REAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORKone grant, 2024 · $30k
- CICHILDSERVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +114%
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.
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Child day care center
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
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…
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of East Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Mirrorbox Theatre. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
- Who funds Hope Community Development Assoc ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds MIRRORBOX THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds RED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARION CARES INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY SCHOOL OF MUSIC INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · GreenState Credit Union · The McIntyre Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · The Accel Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation
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 Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable 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.