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Crescent Electric 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Special Spaces | $25,000 |
| Crescent Community Health Center | $22,500 |
| United Way ServicesDubuque Area TriStates | $5,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Dubuque | $5,000 |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $4,000 |
| Bethany Home | $2,000 |
| Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity | $1,560 |
| East Dubuque Fire Department | $1,000 |
| Foundation for Dubuque Community Schools | $1,000 |
| Wolf Creek Habitat and Rescue | $800 |
| Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Iowa Agape Caf of Iowa City | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| NAMI Dubuque Nat Alliance on Mental Illness DBQ | $800 |
| Electrical Board of Missouri and Illinois Foundation | $800 |
| Junior Achievement of Central Iowa Inc | $800 |
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, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 20 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- CCCrescent Community Health Center6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +92%
- DCDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +86%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- YOYMCA of Dubuque County - Capital Campaignone grant, 2023 · $20k
- YOYMCA of Dubuque Countyone grant, 2022 · $20k
- UWUnited Way Servicesone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
End hunger together.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
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.
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…
Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The des moines area food bank provides emergency food assistance to families in need.
Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daring Sisters. 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 35 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 175 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 Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Stonehill Benevolent Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOME ↗
- Who funds TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Eastview Community Center ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT FAT TIRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
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: Heartland Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · Dupaco RW Hoefer 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 Crescent Electric 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.
- Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
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.
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