· Private foundation
Dorothy E McCormack 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED | $23,500 |
| HAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $13,500 |
| LARCHWOOD COMMUNITY GROUP | $10,000 |
| SIOUX COUNTY AG EXP CENTER | $10,000 |
| PROMISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| LESTER VISIONING INC | $10,000 |
| ROCK VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $6,800 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 211 | $5,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $5,100 |
| ANNE CARLSEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| LOVE INC | $5,000 |
| LYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- VNVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +8%
- GSGREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +97%
- ACANNE CARLSEN CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- RRROCK RAPIDS UNITED FUNDone grant, 2024 · $35k
- FOFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $35k
- COCITY OF HAWARDENone grant, 2024 · $30k
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
The purpose of the corporation is to provide food and meals to those in need.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.
Provide adult day center and senior center for older adults in southeast iowa.
The organization provides mentoring support and referral services for people with physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological problems.
Provides basic medical health care to those who cannot afford to access medical services. provides basic medical care for the uninsured peoples of iowa county, wi and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Sioux Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rock Rapids Area Development Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 26. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 54 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 VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds GREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ATLAS GROUP OF LYON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCK RAPIDS AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗
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: Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Inc · James W and Ella B Forster Trust · Interstates Foundation · Stewart Family Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Timothy J Sandbulte Family Foundation · South Dakota Community 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 Dorothy E McCormack Charitable Trust 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.