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Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation

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.

$257k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$805kHuman Services$725kReligion$596kRecreation & Sports$176kHealth$135kEducation$86kInternational$81kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $223k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION$40,000
THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA$35,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$28,000
FIGGE ART MUSEUM$25,000
YMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY$25,000
TURNING POINT USA$20,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY$15,000
HANDICAP DEVELOPMENT CENTER$15,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM BETTENDORF$10,000
VERA FRENCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE DEANERY SCHOOL OF MUSIC$5,000
CHAMBER MUSIC QUAD CITIES INC$5,000
OPERA QUAD CITIES$5,000
CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $20k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $15k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $2k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $2k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $1k → 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $1k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $1k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $10k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $6k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $3k → 11%HAND IN HAND: $5k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
NE
VA
NC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 40 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
15

Total granted

$2.5M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+10%

Still filing today

65%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PM
    PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $315k · revenue +27%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +31%
  • FA
    FIGGE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • QC
    QUAD CITIES CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • JD
    JOHN DEERE CLASSIC BIRDIES FOR CHARITY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY OF DAVENPORT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

1
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
2
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
3
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
Fond Du Lac Christian School Inc

To serve the christian home and church by disciplining students academically and spiritually; helping each student attain a biblical worldview and their full potential as unique and beloved creations of a sovereign god.

Education
9
Friends School of Minnesota

To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
St Luke's School

A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.

Education
12
Trinity Academy of Portland

The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friendly House of Davenport Iowa; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 60 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $380,000 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY FAMILY YMCAST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $278,750 · OtherST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $225,500 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $215,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWAYMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $110,000 · OtherYMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEYQUAD CITIES CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST: $100,000 · OtherQUAD CITIES CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUSTST ALBAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $58,000 · Other+31 more: $318,335 · Other+31 morePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $315,000 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE …FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $155,000 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART MUSEUMQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $45,250 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHEST…ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INCBONITA WONDER GARDENS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBONITA WONDER GARDENS INC+4 more: $37,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $41,500 · HealthEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $38,000 · HealthDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $12,000 · HealthBALANCED BUDGET NOW: $5,000 · HealthCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $51,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HAND: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $80,850 · ReligionQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $61,300 · PhilanthropyAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $28,000 · EducationVERMONT ACADEMY: $23,000 · EducationRIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,685,585Arts & Culture$623,250Health$96,500Human Services$82,200Religion$80,850Philanthropy$61,300Education$56,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $315,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $215,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $155,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $80,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $61,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $51,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $45,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBONITA WONDER GARDENS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVera French Foundation: $32,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVERMONT ACADEMY: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY: $21,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetY2 BELIEVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Deanery School of Music: $15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGABES ALL-INCLUSIVE PLAY VILLAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBALANCED BUDGET NOW: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PBS FOUNDATION: $335 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds BONITA WONDER GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds Vera French Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Y2 BELIEVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Deanery School of Music ↗
  • Who funds DAVID'S REFUGE 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.

Scott County Regional…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Quad Cities Community…Hubbell-Waterman FndnRoy J Carver Charitab…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Marie H Bechtel Chari…Palmer Family Foundat…Mary Iva Gittins Knou…Easter Foundation IncHarold R Bechtel Char…Moline Foundation
Scott County Regional AuthorityIA34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Modern Woodmen of America · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Palmer Family Foundation · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Easter Foundation Inc · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Moline 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 Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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