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Dorothy E McCormack Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$154kEducation$145kHuman Services$135kArts & Culture$97kReligion$66kRecreation & Sports$55kPublic Benefit$55kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $112k
$5,100
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED$23,500
HAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$13,500
LESTER VISIONING INC$10,000
SIOUX COUNTY AG EXP CENTER$10,000
LARCHWOOD COMMUNITY GROUP$10,000
PROMISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$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
LYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$5,000
LOVE INC$5,000
ANNE CARLSEN CENTER$5,000
NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$4,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $24k → 8%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 11%ABBOTT HOUSE: $6k → 14%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $8k → 8%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 11%ABBOTT HOUSE: $1k → 14%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $8k → 8%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 11%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $8k → 8%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 11%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $7k → 8%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $6k → 8%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $4k → 8%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $6k → 7%WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY: $10k → 8%WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY: $10k → 8%ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $1k → 7%ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $1k → 7%ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $1k → 7%ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $1k → 7%ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $1k → 7%ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $1k → 7%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$651k · 31 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
14

Total granted

$651k
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+75%

Still filing today

48%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionReligionInternationalOther
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

  • VN
    VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED
    7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +8%
  • GS
    GREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +97%
  • AC
    ANNE CARLSEN CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • RR
    ROCK RAPIDS UNITED FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • CO
    CITY OF HAWARDEN
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
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
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Mercy Medical Center - Centerville

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…

Health
3
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
4
Siouxland Community Soup Kitchen

The purpose of the corporation is to provide food and meals to those in need.

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5
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
6
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
7
Hope Haven Inc

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.

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8
Apple Daycare Inc

Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.

Human Services
9
Sioux Falls Cares Inc

To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.

Philanthropy
10
Heart Song Inc

Provide adult day center and senior center for older adults in southeast iowa.

Human Services
11
Atlas of Sioux Center Ltd

The organization provides mentoring support and referral services for people with physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological problems.

Human Services
12
Community Connections Free Clinic Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Sioux Opportunity Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 54 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF NW IA: $64,250 · OtherFAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF NW IAROCK RAPIDS UNITED FUND: $35,000 · OtherROCK RAPIDS UNITED FUNDFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATIONRAPIDS THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $31,250 · OtherRAPIDS THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCCITY OF HAWARDEN: $30,000 · OtherNORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $29,500 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $25,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherLYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherROCK RAPIDS MURAL SOCIETY INC: $20,600 · OtherLESTER VISIONING INC: $20,000 · Other+26 more: $230,700 · Other+26 moreVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $62,500 · Human ServicesVILLAGE NORTHWE…WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWHISPERS OF LOV…Hillcrest Family Services Inc: $18,050 · Human ServicesHillcrest Famil…COVENANT HOUSE: $9,400 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEABBOTT HOUSE INC: $7,250 · Human ServicesABBOTT HOUSE IN…ROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $33,050 · EducationANNE CARLSE…CENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $29,500 · EducationCENTRAL LYO…MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $29,500 · EducationMORNINGSIDE…GREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthGREATER SI…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $28,050 · HealthTHE MICHAE…MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $7,250 · HealthMCCROSSAN …ATLAS GROUP OF LYON COUNTY: $21,600 · ReligionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,050 · InternationalHAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $13,500 · Food & NutritionHOPE FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$572,050Human Services$128,700Education$92,050Health$85,300Religion$21,600International$18,050Food & Nutrition$16,000

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 budgetVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $62,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $33,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $29,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $29,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $28,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetATLAS GROUP OF LYON COUNTY: $21,600 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHillcrest Family Services Inc: $18,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $13,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetROCK RAPIDS AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $9,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $7,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABBOTT HOUSE INC: $7,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCK RAPIDS KIDS CLUB INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAWARDEN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds ROCK RAPIDS AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗

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.

Lyon County Riverboat…James W and Ella B Fo…Interstates FoundationStewart Family Founda…Siouxland Community F…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Sanford Group ReturnPella Rolscreen Found…Midcontinent Foundati…Sioux Falls Area Comm…Timothy J Sandbulte F…South Dakota Communit…
Lyon County Riverboat Foundation IncIA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    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 54 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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