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Duroe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity | $25,000 |
| Winnebago Council - Boy Scouts of America | $12,000 |
| Community Foundation of NE Iowa | $10,000 |
| Cedar Falls School Foundation | $10,000 |
| Waterloo Police Foundation | $5,000 |
| Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area | $5,000 |
| Leader Valley Foundation | $5,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Cedar Valley | $5,000 |
| Waverly Health Center Foundation | $5,000 |
| Bosco Catholic School System | $3,000 |
| Cedar Valley Hospice | $3,000 |
| Des Moines Childrens Museum | $3,000 |
| Family & Children's Council of Black Hawk County | $2,500 |
| The Cedar Valley Friends of the Family | $2,500 |
| Jesup Dollars for Scholars | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- IHIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +127%
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT4× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +575%
- LVLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- EPEXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INCone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +20%
- JFJOB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +21%
- IHIA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Provide a lean, straightforward, and transparent conduit vehicle to those who wish to contribute resources for the betterment of the greater waterloo, iowa community and its citizens.
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…
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
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.
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.
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
Child day care center
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Center for Economic Success and the most unlike its peers is One City United. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 49 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 IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILOS & SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY AREA VETERANS POST ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds GROW CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY UNITED ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
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: Lsb Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · GreenState Credit Union · Cedar Valley United Way · Veridian Credit Union · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Trustage Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem 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 Duroe Family 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.
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.