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Dupaco Community Credit Union

Help members build a life worth loving

$585k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$2.8MArts & Culture$627kEducation$247kEmployment$116kCommunity Improvement$113kRecreation & Sports$74kHealth$53kHuman Services$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $405,570 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $584,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $178,988 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $258k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation$133,000
Creative Adventure Lab$124,500
Holy Family Catholic Schools$45,540
Greater Dubuque Development Corporation$25,000
Dyersville Industries Inc$12,500
Multicultural Family Center$10,000
Four Mounds Foundation HEART Program$10,000
Mississippi Driftless Regional Foundation$10,000
The Fountain of Youth Program$10,000
National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium$10,000
Iowa Credit Union League$8,470
Key City Creative Center$6,560
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Stonehill: $10k → 11%American Red Cross: $10k → 11%American Red Cross: $10k → 11%American Red Cross: $10k → 11%Stonehill: $10k → 11%Stonehill: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 20 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
10

Total granted

$4.0M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+56%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DR
    Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +15% · 91% of their budget
  • CA
    Creative Adventure Lab Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $451k · revenue +44%
  • DC
    Dubuque County Historical Society
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • WB
    Waterloo Black Hawks
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • DS
    DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +186%
  • NR
    Newco Riders LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
2
Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools

Support student achievement by promoting investment in the Dubuque Public Schools.

Philanthropy
3
Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque
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4
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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5
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

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6
The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association

The visiting nurse association exists to promote and improve the health, wellness, and safety of individuals and communities through provision of comprehensive, home, and community based initiatives and services.

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7
Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary

To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.

Health
8
Madison County Development Group

To attract businesses to locate in madison county, iowa

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9
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
10
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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11
Des Moines Jewish Foundation

The foundation was structured to encourage funding of the jewish federation of greater des moines, and is responsible for adding financial stability by broadening the funding base and thereby improving the ability of the des moines jewish…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and the most unlike its peers is Open Doors. 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 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr12%14%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr24%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr17%81%10–20yr15%2%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr24%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/35
the rest of the field
8%
218/2,575

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation — $2,683,000 · PhilanthropyDupaco RW Hoefer Foundation+3 more — $51,668 · PhilanthropyCreative Adventure Lab Inc — $451,100 · Arts & CultureCreative Adventur…Dubuque County Historical Society — $78,250 · Arts & CultureDubuque County Hi…DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $46,000 · Arts & CultureDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF…KEY CITY CREATIVE CENTER — $21,560 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $21,000 · Arts & CultureHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $235,540 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CA…GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $101,000 · OtherGREATER DUBUQU…IOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $35,470 · OtherIOWA CREDIT UN…Northern Lights Hockey LLC — $33,450 · OtherNorthern Light…IOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $26,170 · Other+11 more — $86,250 · Other+11 moreFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S — $72,701 · Community ImprovementDYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIPPI DRIFTLESS REGIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 · Human ServicesStonehill Franciscan Services — $30,000 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $41,450 · HealthFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $5,750 · HealthSt Anthony Regional Hospital and Nursing Home — $5,500 · HealthMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$2,734,668Arts & Culture$617,910Other$517,880Community Improvement$107,701Human Services$60,000Health$52,700Recreation & Sports$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDupaco RW Hoefer Foundation — $2,683,000 over 6y, 91% of budgetCreative Adventure Lab Inc — $451,100 over 5y, 13% of budgetGREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $101,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society — $78,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S — $72,701 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $46,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $41,450 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $35,470 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStonehill Franciscan Services — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $26,170 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKEY CITY CREATIVE CENTER — $21,560 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE — $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetINSPIRING COMMUNTY INC — $16,668 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program — $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa — $11,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL — $11,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSISSIPPI DRIFTLESS REGIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $5,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROW CEDAR VALLEY — $5,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Anthony Regional Hospital and Nursing Home — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER MANOR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JO DAVIESS COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOPEN DOORS — $5,000 over 1y, 33% of budget
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.

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.

Heartland Charitable …James B & Melita a Mc…Dubuque Racing Associ…The Klauer Foundation…Spahn & Rose Lumber C…Community Foundation …Ay McDonald Charitabl…Falb Family Charitabl…Mathis Pfohl Foundati…GreenState Credit Uni…The Butler Family Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…
Heartland Charitable TrustIA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · The Butler Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc

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 Dupaco Community Credit Union 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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