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Falb Family Charitable 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 $10k25 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (Arts Trek) | $36,000 |
| Dubuque Food Pantry | $16,500 |
| Dubuque Museum of Art | $2,500 |
| University of Dubuque | $2,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club Greater Dubuque | $2,500 |
| Friends of St Mary's (dba Steeple Square LLC) | $2,000 |
| Hillcrest Family Services | $2,000 |
| Dubuque Arts Council | $2,000 |
| Dubuque Rescue Mission | $2,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa | $1,500 |
| Dubuque Regional Humane Society | $1,500 |
| Northeast Iowa Council - Scouting America | $1,500 |
| Carnegie Stout Library Foundation | $1,500 |
| Junior Achievement of the Heartland | $1,000 |
| American Red Cross | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- DSDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2021–2022 · $108k · revenue +186%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +47%
- NINortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LDLEGION-AIRES DRUM AND BUGLE CORPSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +243%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -97%
- DCDUBUQUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (AKA NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM &one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
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 university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Providing compassionate care for persons with serious and terminal illness and their loved ones.
To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
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…
Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and the most unlike its peers is Miracle League of Dubuque. 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 49 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 7% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 55 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 DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGION-AIRES DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds Creative Adventure Lab Inc ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD ↗
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: James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Sirk Family Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · The Butler Family Foundation · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · Schoen Family Charitable Trust · Mathis Pfohl 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 Falb Family Charitable 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.
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