· Private foundation
Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOSERV GLOBAL | $60,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL | $50,000 |
| GREATER IA YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $50,000 |
| BETHEL UNIVERITY FOUNDATION | $33,500 |
| ONE VISION | $30,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $26,000 |
| NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ONE COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING | $11,000 |
| MASON CITY CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| GRACE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| HIDDEN ACRES CHRISTIAN CENTER | $7,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $11k) 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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
- CLCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +76%
- NLNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $41k · revenue +5%
- NINORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- FIFREEDOM INN HIS GRACEone grant, 2023 · $28k
- HBHARVEST BIBLE CHAPEL NORTH IOWAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- WBWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.
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…
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…
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The mission of dakota christian school is to assist parents by providing education based on a biblical worldview, thereby enabling children to grow in christian wisdom, to nurture godly character, and to serve christ as lord.
To communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.
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.
Proclaiming that jesus christ is lord of all, unity christian high school provides a biblically based education to guide and equip young people to serve both god and neighbor in all aspects of life.
North star exists so that students are anchored in the hope of the gospel; equipped by the classical method, prepared to lead and live wisely.
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and 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.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GOSERV GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HILLS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds CARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SHARE LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITEDTOSERVE WITH PASSONANDPURPOSE ↗
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: 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
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 Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W 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.
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.