· Private foundation
Fred and Charlotte Hubbell Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k36 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $100,000 |
| DES MOINES WATER WORKS PARK FDTN | $100,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $50,000 |
| DES MOINES COMMINITY FDTN | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDTN OF GREATER DES MOINES | $15,000 |
| SIMPSON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DENVER | $3,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $3,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $3,000 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE | $3,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THER | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- DMDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +23%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +72%
- TFThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +72%
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINESone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -46%
- AHANAWIM HOUSING LEGACY CIRCLEone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 47 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) — 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 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.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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 DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Fountain of Youth Program ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds APOPO US INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Krause Gentle Foundation · Brenton Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Prospice
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 Fred and Charlotte Hubbell 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.