· Private foundation
Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner
Its FY2024 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: 43% of GARTNER FAMILY FOUNDATION % MICHAEL G GARTNER’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII | $52,500 |
| YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII | $50,000 |
| GRAY'S LAKE PARK PLAYGROUND AND SPRAYGROUND FUND | $50,000 |
| GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $50,000 |
| IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| BLANK PARK ZOO | $25,000 |
| SCATTERGOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| DES MOINES UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $20,000 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CENTER AT SIXTH | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
59 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
DRAKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $444k · revenue +20%
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII8× · 2017–2024 · $408k · revenue +99%- DMDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- DMDES MOINES WATER WORKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $55k
- RHROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -25%
- FOFRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKSone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
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…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Latino Political Network. 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 37 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 99 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds BERGMAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Iowa Center for Children's Justice ↗
- Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds URBAN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc
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 Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner 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.