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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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$170kHealth$168kEducation$42kYouth Development$41kPhilanthropy$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kRecreation & Sports$12kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
$800
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Foundation for Dubuque Community Schools$1,000
East Dubuque Fire Department$1,000
Revival Center UPC$800
iCan Shine Inc$800
Princeton Chamber of Commerce$800
Puget Sound Honor Flight$800
Mayo Clinic$800
Eastview Community Center$800
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%iCan Shine Inc: $800 → 6%Legacies Alive: $800 → 10%Mustard Seed Generation Inc: $600 → 14%Guide Dogs for the Blind: $680 → 8%Game to Grow: $800 → 9%Game to Grow: $680 → 9%Dubuque Community YMCA YWCA: $20k → 11%Dubuque Community YMCA: $20k → 11%Stonehill Benevolent Foundation: $5k → 11%Stonehill Benevolent Foundation: $5k → 11%Stonehill Benevolent Foundation: $5k → 11%Stonehill Benevolent Foundation: $5k → 11%American Red Cross: $3k → 11%American Red Cross: $3k → 11%American Red Cross: $3k → 11%DuRide: $750 → 11%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

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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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$359k · 37 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
116

Total granted

$359k
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    Crescent Community Health Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +92%
  • DC
    DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +86%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA of Dubuque County - Capital Campaign
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • YO
    YMCA of Dubuque County
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Dubuque
    one grant, 2021 · $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.

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Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
3
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
4
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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5
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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6
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
7
Douglas County Farm Bureau

Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family

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8
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
9
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
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
Des Moines Area Food Bank

The des moines area food bank provides emergency food assistance to families in need.

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12
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 175 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
50/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Special Spaces: $50,000 · OtherSpecial SpacesYMCA of Dubuque County - Capital Campaign: $20,000 · OtherYMCA of Dubuque County - Capital CampaignYMCA of Dubuque County: $20,000 · OtherYMCA of Dubuque CountyUnited Way ServicesDubuque Area TriStates: $10,000 · Other+128 more: $161,595 · Other+128 moreCrescent Community Health Center: $140,300 · HealthCrescent Community Health CenterBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION+10 more: $9,280 · Health+10 moreDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y: $40,000 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE COMMUNI…Stonehill Benevolent Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesStonehill Benev…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…+9 more: $7,310 · Human Services+9 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $5,000 · EducationClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $2,500 · EducationWAXHAW ELEMENTARY PTO: $1,280 · EducationCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD: $680 · EducationFRIENDS OF DORR TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: $600 · EducationRiverview Center Inc: $500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools: $1,250 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $740 · PhilanthropyELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $680 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $600 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $500 · PhilanthropyLEGACY FOUNDATION: $400 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $2,200 · Recreation & SportsPIEDMONT FAT TIRE SOCIETY: $1,600 · Recreation & SportsTHE MARION PARKS & RECREATION: $1,400 · Recreation & SportsNew Glarus Cares Community Foundation Inc: $1,400 · Recreation & Sports
Other$261,595Health$161,580Human Services$74,810Youth Development$26,000Education$10,560Philanthropy$9,170Recreation & Sports$6,600

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 budgetCrescent Community Health Center: $140,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetStonehill Benevolent Foundation: $20,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY: $2,585 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLORAS COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUGET SOUND HONOR FLIGHT: $2,080 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBETHANY HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEastview Community Center: $1,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON: $1,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENING DOORS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGAME TO GROW: $1,480 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF CREEK HABITAT & RESCUE INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARION PARKS & RECREATION: $1,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew Glarus Cares Community Foundation Inc: $1,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $1,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools: $1,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budget610 Great Alaska Council: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLlamas Del Sol Inc: $1,025 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetiCan Shine Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WATERS BIBLE CAMP INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMATTS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDARING SISTERS: $800 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACIES ALIVE: $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSKY VALLEY FOOD BANK: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTENTNEA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRDIES 4 BRAINS MN INC: $800 over 2y, 1.0% 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 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 UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • 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 VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PIEDMONT FAT TIRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Eastview Community Center ↗
  • Who funds TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON ↗

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.

Heartland Charitable …Alliant Energy Founda…Community Foundation …Spahn & Rose Lumber C…James B & Melita a Mc…Dubuque Racing Associ…Falb Family Charitabl…Ay McDonald Charitabl…The Butler Family Fou…Sirk Family FoundationThe Klauer Foundation…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…
Heartland Charitable TrustIA43.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Trailkeepers of Oregon: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 175 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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