· Private foundation
Gary Wicklund 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orchestra Iowa | $8,000 |
| University of Iowa Center for Advancement | $6,000 |
| Orchestra Iowa | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Iowa City Community School Distriict | $1,000 |
| Vail Rotary Foundation | $1,000 |
| Vail Performing Arts Academy | $1,000 |
| Paul Taylor Dance Foundation | $1,000 |
| Englert Theatre | $600 |
| Vail Health Foundation | $500 |
| The Harkin Institute | $500 |
| Shelter House | $500 |
| BalletX | $500 |
| Dance Aspen | $500 |
| Bravo Vail | $500 |
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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% 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.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- OIORCHESTRA IOWA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +50%
- VPVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +36%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- VPVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +29%
- SHShelter House - Fire Recoveryone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +216%
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 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 vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
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…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
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…
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Colorado ballet's mission is to present exceptional classical ballet and contemporary dance through performances, training, education and community engagement while inspiring and growing an increasingly diverse audience base.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Englert Civic Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preucil School of Music. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 68 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Colorado Ski Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds PREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds DANCEASPEN ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
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: GreenState Credit Union · Community Foundation of Johnson County · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Dne Caplan Family Foundation · United Way of Johnson & Washington Count · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Reuben & Muriel Savin Fdn · Hodge Family 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gary Wicklund 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.