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Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W at a glance

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Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$475k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$369kReligion$145kYouth Development$102kHuman Services$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kInternational$47kHousing & Shelter$41kHealth$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIDDEN ACRES CHRISTIAN CENTER$80,000
BETHEL UNIVERITY FOUNDATION$50,000
43 NORTH IOWA$40,000
MILL CITY CHURCH$35,000
MERCYONE FOUNDATION$30,000
GOSERV GLOBAL$30,000
CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL$25,000
ATHLETES IN ACTION$20,000
ONE COLLECTIVE$20,000
YSS OF NORTH IOWA$20,000
COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IOWA$11,500
ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$10,000
MROM ROCK STEADY BOXING$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $11k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND: $2k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 66%.

Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F Wlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 23 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
12

Total granted

$1.0M
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+3%

Still filing today

65%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesReligionInternationalOther
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

  • CL
    CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +76%
  • BU
    BETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $84k · revenue +22%
  • OC
    ONE COLLECTIVE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • GI
    GREATER IA YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • OV
    One Vision
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • FI
    FREEDOM INN HIS GRACE
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
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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East Iowa Bible Conference

East Iowa Bible Camp exists to aid the Church in Eastern Iowa by telling the Good News of Jesus Christ to children of all ages. Therefore it is our goal to provide fun, safe facitilies and God-centered programs that exalt Jesus Christ in…

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2
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
3
Christian Opportunity Center

Christian opportunity center (coc) provides services to over 250 people with disabilities in south central iowa. training them with the skills they need to live and work in their communities. they offer work through their community-based…

Employment
4
Nebraska Christian Schools Inc

To assist the family & church by providing a christ-centered education, equipping students with a biblical worldview and encouraging a love relationship with the lord jesus christ.

Education
5
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
6
Iowa Christian Academy

Iowa christian academy is committed to raising generations of leaders committed to christ, trained as his disciples, educated in a god-honoring, traditional education system emphasizing biblical values, morals, character and integrity

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7
Heartland Hope & Homes Inc

To witness to and implement the gospel of jesus christ in iowa and throughout the united states and the world by working with economically disadvantaged people to help them to create a better human habitat in which to live and work.

Housing & Shelter
8
Iowa Association of Christian Schools

To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.

Education
9
Omaha Youth for Christ

To communicate the life changing message of jesus christ to every young person, giving them the opportunity to make an informed decision to become a follower of jesus christ.

Youth Development
10
Caring Hands Outreach Center Inc

Caring hands outreach center is a network of christian churches and community partners that mobilizes eastern polk county iowa for compassionate service toward their neighbors. the organization operates a food pantry providing groceries to…

Food & Nutrition
11
Ingham-Okoboji Lutheran Bible Camp Assn

To know Jesus Christ and to make Christ known to all. This is accomplished through year-round camping and retreating ministry.

Youth Development
12
Iowa Mennonite Crowded Closet

Support of third-world missionary work.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Iowa Youth for Christ; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 47 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIDDEN ACRES CHRISTIAN CENTER: $97,000 · OtherHIDDEN ACRES CHRISTIAN CENTERNORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $75,000 · OtherNORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEOAK HILLS ACADEMY: $50,383 · OtherOAK HILLS ACADEMYGREATER IA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $50,000 · OtherGREATER IA YOUTH FOR CHRISTCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: $46,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLNORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $40,000 · OtherMILL CITY CHURCH OF MINNEAPOLIS: $40,000 · OtherNORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $36,500 · OtherMERCYONE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherFREEDOM INN HIS GRACE: $27,768 · Other+26 more: $267,798 · Other+26 moreCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED: $195,000 · EducationCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL IN…BETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $83,500 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUND…GOSERV GLOBAL INC: $90,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $40,792 · Housing & ShelterOne Vision: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterONE COLLECTIVE: $57,000 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionIRON SHARPENS IRON INC: $9,600 · ReligionElderbridge Agency on Aging: $21,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS CHEER FUND INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$805,449Education$278,500Public Safety & Disaster$90,000Housing & Shelter$70,792International$57,000Religion$29,600Human Services$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED: $195,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetGOSERV GLOBAL INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $83,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetONE COLLECTIVE: $57,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOAK HILLS ACADEMY: $50,383 over 2y, 34% of budgetNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $45,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $40,792 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $36,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOne Vision: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElderbridge Agency on Aging: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $20,025 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE LIFE: $12,800 over 3y, 12% of budgetCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIRON SHARPENS IRON INC: $9,600 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITEDTOSERVE WITH PASSONANDPURPOSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GOSERV GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds OAK HILLS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds One Vision ↗
  • Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds CARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds IRON SHARPENS IRON INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
  • Who funds BROWN BOYS BENEFIT ↗

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.

First Citizens Bank C…Bertha Stebens Charit…Kinney-Lindstrom Foun…Farrer Endowment Foun…John K and Luise V Ha…The David & Phyllis M…United Way of North C…Jd Nelson and Debra N…Community Fdn of Grea…Alliant Energy Founda…Beth E Reinhart Chari…Tomson Family Foundat…
First Citizens Bank Charitable FoundationIA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Farrer Endowment Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Jd Nelson and Debra Nelson Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Tomson Family Foundation Trust

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 Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 47 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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