· Private foundation
Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of FOSTER & EVELYN BARKEMA CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 87 grants below total $993,585 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,202,045 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $208,460 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $794k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hampton-Dumont Scholarship Fund (includes CAL students) | $50,000 |
| City of Rowan (Iowa River Players Comm. Theater) | $30,000 |
| West Fork Scholarship Fund | $30,000 |
| Relay for Life of Franklin County (American Cancer Society) | $25,000 |
| Belmond Community Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| Iowa Ronald McDonald House Charities (Governor's Charity Steer Show) | $25,000 |
| Sheffield Betterment Foundation | $24,000 |
| Sheffield Care Center | $24,000 |
| West Fork CSD (HS) | $22,500 |
| Thornton Volunteer Fire Assoc. Inc. | $21,000 |
| First Reformed Church | $20,000 |
| Franklin Wellness Center (Franklin County R.A.C.E.) | $20,000 |
| Iowa State Univ. Fdn | $20,000 |
| Friends of Beed's Lake | $20,000 |
| Immanuel Reformed Church | $20,000 |
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k 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
- SCSheffield Care Center2× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +17%
- BFBELMOND FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +73%
- WFWest Fork Food Pantry2× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- HSHAMPTON-DUMONT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -26% · 40% of their budget
- HCHampton-Dumont CSD Elementaryone grant, 2022 · $25k
- NNIACCone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Create opportunities for belmond and it's citizens to be a better community
Community fair providing a venue for agricultural demonstrations & activities by 4-h, ffa , etc.
County museum- mission is to derive and maintain the historical accuracy of floyd county, ia
To provide financial support to st francis memorial hospital
Medical screening
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franklin General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Belmond Historical Society. 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 16 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 113 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 HAMPTON-DUMONT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Sheffield Care Center ↗
- Who funds BELMOND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELMOND FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Access Incorporated ↗
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: A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.
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