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Dorothy & Bud Lundahl Charitable Trust at a glance

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Dorothy & Bud Lundahl Charitable Trust

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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$25kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$17kCommunity Improvement$16kHealth$13kInternational$10kEmployment$9kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$394k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOLINE FOUNDATION$6,667
YOUTH HOPE FOUNDATION$4,000
CHRISTIAN CARE MISSION$3,500
HUMILITY HOMES & SERVICES$3,500
ARGROW'S HOUSE$2,500
TRANSITIONS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$1,500
RIVER BEND FOOD BANK$1,500
ONE EIGHTY$1,077
QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK$1,000
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 (FY22–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $6k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 15%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $1k → 15%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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 8 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$89k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MO
    MERCADO ON 5TH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +0%
  • TY
    The Youth Hope Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +40%
  • BF
    BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -49%
  • EA
    EMPOWERING ABILITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • CO
    CITY OF MOLINE
    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.

1
Reach for Your Potential Inc

Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
2
Operation Threshold Inc

Operation threshold will collaborate, educate and provide services to help meet the basic needs of people and create opportunities for self-sufficiency.

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3
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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4
Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Cor

To foster, encourage, aid or otherwise assist in the economic growth and development of the four-county region of buena vista, clay, dickinson and emmet counties in iowa.

Community Improvement
5
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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6
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…

Community Improvement
7
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
8
Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc

Upper des moines opportunity, inc. is dedicated to helping build stronger communities by addressing the effects of poverty on individuals and families.upper des moines opportunity, inc. will strengthen communities through: the promotion of…

Community Improvement
9
The Center for Pursuit

The center for pursuit provides residential, vocational, and day services that promote individual choice, personal growth, and independence for adults with developmental disabilities, autism and similar conditions.

Human Services
10
The Arc of the Quad Cities Area

To empower people with disabilities to believe in their own unique abilities and achieve their full potential by providing quality, innovative services that focus on advocacy, inclusion, independence, employment, meaningful community life…

Human Services
11
Huron Area Center for Independence

Mission: supporting people to participate as essential members of their community.

Employment
12
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families; the most unlike its peers is The Youth Hope Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEAST MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 · OtherEAST MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARYThe Youth Hope Foundation: $14,000 · OtherThe Youth Hope FoundationCITY OF MOLINE: $5,000 · OtherCITY OF MOLINEROCK ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherROCK ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARYCHRISTIAN CARE MISSION: $3,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $3,000 · OtherTHE 180 ZONE: $3,077 · Other+5 more: $8,500 · Other+5 moreMERCADO ON 5TH INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMERCADO ON 5TH IN…MOLINE FOUNDATION: $6,667 · Community ImprovementMOLINE FOUNDATIONBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10,500 · Human ServicesBETHANY F…QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesQUAD CITI…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $10,000 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES: $9,000 · EmploymentEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $7,000 · HealthTRANSITIONS NFP: $1,500 · HealthHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $3,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$75,077Community Improvement$21,667Human Services$11,500International$10,000Employment$9,000Health$8,500Housing & Shelter$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCADO ON 5TH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Youth Hope Foundation: $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES: $9,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOLINE FOUNDATION: $6,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE: $3,077 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITIONS NFP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Quad Cities Community…United Way Quad CitiesScott County Regional…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Moline FoundationSheila Murphy Foundat…Charles Deere Wiman M…Grant & Virginia Bris…Rauch Family Foundati…Hubbell-Waterman FndnThe Rock Island Commu…Mary Iva Gittins Knou…
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Moline Foundation · Sheila Murphy Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Charles Deere Wiman Memorial Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw

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 Dorothy & Bud Lundahl Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy & Bud Lundahl Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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 22 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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