· Private foundation
Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust
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: 48% of CHARLOTTE AND WILLIAM HINSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST’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 $10k35 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC | $8,000 |
| DUMBARTON HOUSE FUND FOR THE FUTURE | $8,000 |
| UNI SUZUKI SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| CORNELL COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| TURNER CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| WESTLAKE VILLAGE SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATTI IN THE STATE OF NH | $2,000 |
| DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY | $1,400 |
| IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,400 |
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 (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 25 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- DMDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +61%
- CICURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +95%
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Northern Iowaone grant, 2020 · $4k
- USUNI Susuki Schoolone grant, 2021 · $2k
- UOUniversity of Iowa College of Dentione grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Malibu Friends of Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 75 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 DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTLAKE VILLAGE SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds FURRY FRIENDS REFUGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALIBU FRIENDS OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds LIFE Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Jazz Society ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CAN PLAY ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Lsb Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation · Duroe Family Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · The Gallagher 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 Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust 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.