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Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $457k
- $10k–50k118 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $1,292,499 |
| CITY OF CASCADE | $975,000 |
| DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $208,754 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $202,165 |
| ST MARK YOUTH ENRICHMENT | $175,566 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE | $171,339 |
| ST COLUMBKILLE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $165,127 |
| NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM & AQUARIUM | $138,119 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $137,562 |
| DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $123,744 |
| DUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION | $122,570 |
| LORAS COLLEGE | $116,788 |
| CITY OF WAUKON | $89,781 |
| GUTTENBERG ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE | $87,084 |
| MAQUOKETA VALLEY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $84,755 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
286 repeat relationships: 167 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCrescent Community Health Center8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +230%
- DCDubuque County Historical Society8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +50%
- LCLORAS COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DIDUBUQUE INITIATIVESone grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue -42% · 51% of their budget
- LDLAKE DELHI RECREATIONAL FACILITY AND WATER DISTRICT - DELAWARE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $139k
- MUMONONA UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $38k
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.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
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 promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To improve member newspapers
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.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
How this is measured
281 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 281 of the 491 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S ↗
- Who funds JO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
- Who funds HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Stonehill Franciscan Services ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
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: Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Schoen Family Charitable Trust · Sirk Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque. Bigger dots raise more.
- Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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