How much does Flynn Family Foundation give?

Flynn Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Flynn Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (23%), Religion (9%).

Who are Flynn Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Holy Family Catholic Schools ($45k), Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ($31k), Opening Doors ($26k).

Does Flynn Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Flynn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Flynn Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heartland Charitable Trust, Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.

Where is Flynn Family Foundation based?

Flynn Family Foundation is based in IA.

Flynn Family Foundation

Flynn Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$110k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$127kHealth$121kReligion$49kArts & Culture$46kYouth Development$38kHuman Services$35kRecreation & Sports$33kHousing & Shelter$31kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $49k
$10k–50k5 grants · $62k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$2,500
CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER	$2,500
IOWA SPORTS EXPO GROUP INC	$2,500
STEEPLE SQUARE	$2,000
FARLEY BETTERMENT GROUP	$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE	$2,000
MIGHTY MADDYS MISSION	$2,000
CHIPPEWA VALLEY MUSEUM	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$424k · 45 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$424k

$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

Still filing today

58%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NI
Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +53%
OD
OPENING DOORS
4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +184%
GL
GATHERING LIGHTHOUSE INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +78% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

MH
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $10k
SC
ST CLEMENTS CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2024 · $6k
OE
OPERATION ENPOWER
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +6%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement

Dubuque County Early Childhood Inc

Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.

Community Improvement

Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health

Dubuque Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture

Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

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.

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Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

—

Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary

To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.

Health

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque

Our mission is to reduce poverty, strengthen families and empower communities in the 30 most northeast counties of Iowa.

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United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States

To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.

Philanthropy

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education

Northwest Iowa Hospital Corporation

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.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association; 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.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

26/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$380,500Health$63,500Arts & Culture$25,500Human Services$24,500Public Benefit$21,000Education$12,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Heartland Charitable TrustIA40.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Flynn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flynn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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