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Flynn Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $14,000 |
| ST COLUMBKILLE'S CHURCH | $11,500 |
| OPENING DOORS | $11,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY BOY SCOUTS | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| IOWA SPORTS EXPO GROUP INC | $2,500 |
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| REGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $2,000 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| MIGHTY MADDYS MISSION | $2,000 |
| FARLEY BETTERMENT GROUP | $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 (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NINortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +53%
- ODOPENING DOORS4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +276%
- GLGATHERING LIGHTHOUSE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +78% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SCST CLEMENTS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- MSMAIN STREET MONROE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
To serve, promote and protect our members and the greater good of the business community making dubuque the best place to live, work, play and do business.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
Our mission is to reduce poverty, strengthen families and empower communities in the 30 most northeast counties of Iowa.
To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
The mission of northwest iowa hospital corporation, d/b/a st. luke's regional medical center, is to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association and the most unlike its peers is Iowa Sports Expo Group Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 80 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
- Who funds GATHERING LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds IOWA SPORTS EXPO GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TTT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA ART EXPERIENCE LTD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds REGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ENPOWER ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION CHILD CARE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE 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: Heartland Charitable Trust · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Herrig Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Gantz Foundation Charitable Trust
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 Flynn 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.
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