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Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$157kEducation$86kReligion$53kHealth$33kAnimals$20kHuman Services$16kHousing & Shelter$16kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CORNELL COLLEGE$4,000
WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$4,000
TURNER CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA$3,000
WESTLAKE VILLAGE SYMPHONY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION$2,000
BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER$2,000
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL$2,000
SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATTI IN THE STATE OF NH$2,000
LOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY$1,400
IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,400
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 9%BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 9%Bridgehaven Pregnancy Support Cente: $1k → 9%Bridgehaven Pregnancy Support Cente: $1k → 9%BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 9%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE: $1k → 17%Des Moines Area Religious Council: $2k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $2k → 10%Des Moines Area Religious Council: $1k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $1k → 10%Hawkeye Area Community Action Inc: $5k → 9%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE: $1k → 17%Hawkeye Area Community Action Inc: $2k → 9%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $1k → 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1k → 9%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $1k → 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1k → 9%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE: $1k → 17%LOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY: $1k → 17%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE: $1k → 17%Cedar Valley Hospice: $1k → 17%LOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY: $1k → 17%Cedar Valley Hospice: $1k → 17%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

ME
MN
WI
MI
MA
IA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$402k · 56 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
13

Total granted

$402k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+7%

Still filing today

57%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • DM
    DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +61%
  • CC
    CORNELL COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +15%
  • CI
    CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Northern Iowa
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • UO
    University of Iowa College of Denti
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • UO
    University of Northern Iowa Foundat
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Illinois College

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…

Education
3
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Grand View University

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

Education
5
Common Good Iowa

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.

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6
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
7
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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8
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
9
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
10
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
12
Museum of American Finance

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 74 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC: $31,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCCWATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $18,000 · OtherWATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAWaterloo-CF Symphony Orch: $14,000 · OtherWaterloo-CF Symphony OrchFirst Congregational UCC: $14,000 · OtherFirst Congregational UCCUNI SUZUKI SCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherCENTRAL IOWA JAZZ ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · OtherDUMBARTON HOUSE FUND FOR THE FUTURE: $8,000 · Other+40 more: $116,000 · Other+40 moreDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $45,500 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSO…CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSI…WESTLAKE VILLAGE SYMPHONY: $11,000 · Arts & CultureWESTLAKE VILLAGE SYMPHON…Edmundson Art Foundation Inc: $8,000 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation…MALIBU FRIENDS OF MUSIC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMALIBU FRIENDS OF MUSICSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…CORNELL COLLEGE: $14,000 · EducationCORNELL COLL…JOB FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationJOB FOUNDATI…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVER…+2 more: $2,000 · EducationHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $8,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY: $2,400 · Human ServicesFURRY FRIENDS REFUGE: $10,500 · AnimalsLIFE Animal Rescue: $6,000 · AnimalsFixNation Inc: $2,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $1,000 · AnimalsNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $9,200 · Food & NutritionIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $6,400 · Housing & ShelterAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$221,000Arts & Culture$96,500Education$49,000Human Services$34,400Animals$19,500Food & Nutrition$9,200Housing & Shelter$8,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $45,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFURRY FRIENDS REFUGE: $10,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $9,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $6,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE Animal Rescue: $6,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMALIBU FRIENDS OF MUSIC: $6,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetJOB FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAN PLAY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Jazz Society: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSIC ARRANGERS AND COMPOSERS: $3,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY: $2,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROUT MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFixNation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINN-MAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALIBU ADAMSON HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTLAKE VILLAGE SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds FURRY FRIENDS REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds MALIBU FRIENDS OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds CAN PLAY ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles Jazz Society ↗

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.

Lsb FoundationMax and Helen Guernse…Van G Miller Family C…Otto Schoitz Foundati…Pauline R Barrett Cha…Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Community Fdn of Grea…Molinaro Family Chari…Duroe Family Foundati…Black Hawk County Gam…The Gallagher Family …
Lsb FoundationIA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 74 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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