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Farrer Endowment Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k27 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES | $30,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NIACC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION | $30,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION NORTH IOWA | $20,000 |
| MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| WEST FORK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $12,000 |
| GARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE | $10,000 |
| ONE VISION | $10,000 |
| 43 NORTH IOWA | $10,000 |
| ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IOWA | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC | $7,500 |
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, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 12 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- NINorth Iowa Community Action Organization9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +10%
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +110%
- NINORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- FLFRANCIS LAUER YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $35k
- CVCEDAR VALLEY SEMINARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
Enhance the economy of mason city and promote the north iowa area as a destination for overnight visitors.
Support business and industry with retention and expansion projects and attract new business and industry to cerro gordo county, mason city and clear lake.
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
To improve member newspapers
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
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.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
To promote local businesses and business development in fairfield, iowa
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Build a Better Belmond. 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 40 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 125 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 North Iowa Community Action Organization ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds T L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds NIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL GARDENS OF NORTH IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE DAYCARE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - NORTH IOWA ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds STEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Stratford Foundation · Lee Endowment 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 Farrer Endowment 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.