· Public charity
Dyersville Area Foundation for the Future Inc
We are committed to improving the quality of life in our region by serving donors, making grants to local nonprofit organizations, and providing community leadership through convening and collaboration.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of DYERSVILLE AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $5,793 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $25,657 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,864 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BECKMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,793 |
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 (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABI-COUNTY AMBULANCE INC2× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +101%
- DHDYERSVILLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +123%
- HAHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +144%
- SPST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- DADYERSVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +45%
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 volunteer fire protection to the cummunity of dunkirk, indiana.
To provide fire protection to the dysartsville community of mcdowell county north carolina
Fire protection and resuce service
Fire protection, 911 dispatched emergency medical services and fire prevention education provided to approximately 7,000 local residents.
The wesley fire department, inc., helps keep its communities safe by providing necessary emergency services for the rural areas it serves, including all of the city of wesley and wesley township as well as portions of prairie township in…
The jefferson-monroe fire department is a volunteer fire department providing service to two townships in rurual iowa. the majority of the revenue is paid by townships and cities inside of these townships.
The mission of the DUNCANVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, INC. is the delivery of life safety services. The department provides 24-hour emergency response to a variety of critical situations, primarily fires.
Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family
to protect lives and property through protection, prevention and education
Fire Department
To promptly and professionally serve the needs to our community with pride, dedication, and excellence never failing to deliver quality emergency life saving services with the highest level of integrity, commitment, teamwork, and community…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dyersville Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bi-County Ambulance Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
16 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. 16 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.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BI-COUNTY AMBULANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DYERSVILLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DYERSVILLE COMMERCIAL CLUB ↗
- Who funds DYERSVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds RURAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DYERSVILLE FARMERS COMMUNITY FIRE DEPART ↗
- Who funds HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Area Residential Care Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds FARLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELLEN KENNEDY LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VIENNA-LUXEMBURG COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Joseph and Helen Ertl Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Heartland Charitable Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dyersville Area Foundation for the Future Inc 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.
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