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Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$440k
Granted FY2025still arriving
141
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0136% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$517kEducation$402kHousing & Shelter$140kHealth$114kCommunity Improvement$107kYouth Development$68kEmployment$54kArts & Culture$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k129 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Emergency Assistance Foundation$100,000
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque$20,000
Feed Iowa First$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Hope Community Development Association (Hope CDA)$10,000
Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity$10,000
One City United$10,000
Catherine McAuley Center$10,000
Four Oaks Family and Children's Services$10,000
Presentation Lantern Center$10,000
Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Foundation Inc$10,000
Four Mounds Foundation-HEART Partnership$10,000
Madison Northside Planning Council Inc$5,000
Dubuque St Vincent de Paul$5,000
United Way of Dane County$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Emergency Assistance Foundation: $100k → 11%Four Oaks Family & Children's Services: $5k → 9%Lutheran Services In Iowa: $2k → 10%Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP): $3k → 9%Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center: $5k → 17%Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc: $3k → 9%Catherine McAuley Center: $10k → 9%Camp Courageous: $2k → 11%Catherine McAuley Center: $5k → 9%Catherine McAuley Center: $5k → 9%Catherine McAuley Center: $4k → 9%Catherine McAuley Center: $3k → 9%Project Iowa: $5k → 10%Project IOWA: $5k → 10%YWCA Madison: $5k → 10%YMCA Madison: $2k → 10%Oakridge Neighborhood Services: $5k → 10%Catherine McAuley Center: $2k → 9%Amani Community Services: $2k → 17%Families Helping Families: $3k → 9%Families Helping Families: $2k → 9%Families Helping Families of Iowa: $2k → 9%Families Helping Families of Iowa: $2k → 9%Waypoint Services for Women Children and Families: $10k → 9%Stonehill Benevolent Foundation: $10k → 11%Young Parents Network: $2k → 9%Four Oaks Family and Children's Services: $10k → 9%Four Oaks Family and Children's Services: $10k → 9%Four Oaks Family and Children's Services: $5k → 9%Four Oaks Family & Children's Services: $5k → 9%Four Oak Family & Children's Services: $5k → 9%Four Oaks Family & Children's Services: $5k → 9%Together We Achieve: $3k → 9%Together We Achieve: $3k → 9%Families Helping Families: $2k → 9%Marion Cares: $2k → 9%Families Helping Families of Iowa: $2k → 9%Marion Cares: $2k → 9%Dubuque Community YMCAYWCA: $2k → 11%The Red Basket Project: $1k → 11%Red Basket Project: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
IA
CA
CO
TN
GA
FL

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$750k · 102 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

102 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 80 since wound down; 118 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
1316

Total granted

$750k
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

45%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FO
    FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +39%
  • TB
    Two By Two Character Development
    5× · 2019–2023 · $36k · revenue +219%
  • CM
    CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +416%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Dubuque and Jackson Counties
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • SD
    SINSINAWA DOMINICANS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • WS
    WAYPOINT SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +11%

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
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
2
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
3
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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4
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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5
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
6
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
7
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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9
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
10
Community Action of Eastern Iowa

Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.

Community Improvement
11
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
12
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of East Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is The Fountain of Youth Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFraternity and Sorority Hou…Early Childhood Education C…Community Foundations & Dev…Rural Fire & Ems ServicesWisconsin Environmental Con…Animal Rescue and AdoptionTrade Labor UnionsIndependent Schools and Col…Disability & Support Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number9%2%<5yr6%8%5–10yr9%22%10–20yr7%18%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr61%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value9%1%<5yr6%8%5–10yr9%32%10–20yr7%20%20–35yr9%27%35–55yr61%13%55yr+

The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/94
the rest of the field
5%
592/11,748

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

92 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. 92 of the 1,538 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
63/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+161 more — $924,138 · Other+161 moreEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANC…FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $45,000 · Human ServicesFOUR OAKS FAMILY AN…CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC — $28,500 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAULEY C…FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES — $12,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT IOWA — $10,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesStonehill Benevolent Foundation — $10,000 · Human Services+6 more — $33,000 · Human Services+6 moreNEWBO CITY MARKET — $25,000 · Community ImprovementHope Community Development Assoc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementMADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement247 BLAC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S — $5,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $5,000 · Community ImprovementLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Community ImprovementCrescent Community Health Center — $15,000 · HealthHOUSE OF HOPE — $10,000 · HealthHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $5,500 · HealthHIS HANDS MINISTRIES — $5,050 · HealthPOTOSI RESCUE SQUAD INC — $5,000 · HealthFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · HealthTANAGER PLACE — $4,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $3,825 · HealthTwo By Two Character Development — $36,000 · Youth DevelopmentDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $5,635 · Youth DevelopmentJOB FOUNDATION — $18,500 · EducationRiverview Center Inc — $11,000 · EducationTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $6,500 · EducationPEOSTA ELEMENTARY PARENTS — $5,000 · EducationKEY CITY CREATIVE CENTER — $25,280 · Arts & CultureDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$924,138Human Services$249,000Community Improvement$79,000Health$52,375Youth Development$51,635Education$41,000Arts & Culture$37,780

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTwo By Two Character Development — $36,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC — $28,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKEY CITY CREATIVE CENTER — $25,280 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetONE CITY UNITED — $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFEED IOWA FIRST — $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJOB FOUNDATION — $18,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEcumenical Community Center Foundation — $16,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY ADVOCATES INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCrescent Community Health Center — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENTATION LANTERN — $14,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES — $12,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetRiverview Center Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT IOWA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPENING DOORS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Dream Center — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStonehill Benevolent Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE — $10,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budget247 BLAC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARION INDEPENDENT SCHOOL FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $8,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARION CARES INC — $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $5,635 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DUBUQUE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP ALBRECHT ACRES OF THE MIDWEST — $5,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHIS HANDS MINISTRIES — $5,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER WE ACHIEVE — $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 2.8% 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.

Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Heartland Charitable …James B & Melita a Mc…Greater Cedar Rapids …Otto Schoitz Foundati…Community Foundation …Max and Helen Guernse…Dubuque Racing Associ…Spahn & Rose Lumber C…Lsb FoundationThe Accel Foundation
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI87.7× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Lsb Foundation · The Accel 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 Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    41report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 1538 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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