· Private foundation
Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k71 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| IOWA AVIATION MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMAN | $7,500 |
| WARREN CULTURAL CENTER | $6,000 |
| GREENFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $5,000 |
| CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| JENNIE EDMUNDSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ORIGINAL POTTAWATTAMIE CO FAIR BOARD | $5,000 |
| PRESCOTT FIRE AND RESCUE ASSN | $5,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| ADAIR COUNTY HEALTH & FITNESS CENTER | $5,000 |
| EAST MILLS CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS | $5,000 |
| WOODBURN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| TRI-CENTER ASSOCIATION ON AGING | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
90 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- TWTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA5× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +59%
- ACAdair County Historical Society8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +64% · 33% of their budget
- TFTHE FARMER'S HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MCMILLS COUNTY FLOOD FUNDone grant, 2019 · $15k
- FCFREMONT CO FLOOD FUNDone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Commuity economic development and industrial development in adams county iowa.
The promotion of altoona, ia
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
Engage in, assist and contribute to the support of economical and industrial development of the city of graettinger, iowa, including the assistance, encouragement and preservation of existing businesses and industries
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
To enhance, retain, and attract commercial, industrial, and agricultural growth, development, and diversity within adams county and its cities, towns and ports.
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
To provide a public daycare and preschool to the lynnville, iowa area.
Economic development for keokuk, ia and surrounding community.
Industry expansion in delaware county
Promote the economic development and employment opportunities in monroe county, iowa, including the city of albia by advertising and publicizing the advantages of the area and assisting in locating, developing and making available suitable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Child Development Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shelby County Trails Board 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 19 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 243 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
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
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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Iowa West Foundation · South Central Iowa Community Founda · Community Foundation for Western Iowa · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Sunderland Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Ef & Sylvia Schildberg 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.