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Gary Wicklund Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$65kEducation$38kCommunity Improvement$32kHealth$10kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$3kRecreation & Sports$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
5
States reached
$717k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Paul Taylor Dance Foundation$1,000
Vail Performing Arts Academy$1,000
Englert Theatre$600
Iowa State University$500
Colorado Ski Museum$500
Joffrey Ballet$500
Bravo Vail$500
BalletX$500
The Harkin Institute$500
02The need
03

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Camp Courageous: $300 → 11%Camp Courageous: $300 → 11%Camp Courageous: $250 → 11%Camp Courageous: $250 → 11%Camp Courageous: $200 → 11%Camp Courageous: $200 → 11%Table to Table: $250 → 15%Table to Table: $250 → 15%United Action for Youth: $250 → 15%United Action for Youth: $250 → 15%United Action for Youth: $250 → 15%United Action for Youth: $250 → 15%United Action for Youth: $250 → 15%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $250 → 15%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $250 → 15%United Action for Youth: $250 → 15%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $250 → 15%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $200 → 15%CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank: $200 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 49 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
13

Total granted

$117k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+84%

Still filing today

55%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OI
    ORCHESTRA IOWA INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +50%
  • VP
    VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +36%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • VP
    VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +29%
  • SH
    Shelter House - Fire Recovery
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • CR
    CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +216%
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.

1
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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2
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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3
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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5
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

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…

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6
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
7
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
8
Cornell College

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…

Education
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

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…

Philanthropy
11
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Ballet

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Englert Civic Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vail Performing Arts Center: $12,500 · OtherVail Performing Arts CenterUI Center for Advancement: $5,300 · OtherUI Center for AdvancementTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY …Vail Rotary Foundation: $3,500 · OtherVail Rotary FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIowa State University: $2,500 · OtherBravo Vail: $2,350 · Other+35 more: $28,736 · Other+35 moreORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $12,860 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA IOWA INCVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $9,400 · Arts & CultureVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMYPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 · Arts & CulturePAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INCBALLETX: $3,520 · Arts & CultureBALLETXTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INCTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLETVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureIOWA CITY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $2,350 · Arts & CultureColorado Ski Museum Inc: $1,750 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,344 · Arts & Culture+4 moreVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATIO…STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationIOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $1,450 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,100 · HealthEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH: $1,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH: $1,500 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $1,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $1,400 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $1,150 · Human ServicesTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $500 · Human ServicesROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $1,450 · Recreation & SportsIOWA BICYCLE COALITION INC: $1,100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$62,886Arts & Culture$48,624Community Improvement$32,000Education$7,450Health$6,100Human Services$6,050Recreation & Sports$2,550

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $12,860 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $9,400 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLETX: $3,520 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CITY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $2,350 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $1,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Ski Museum Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $1,554 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDANCEASPEN: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $1,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $1,154 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA BICYCLE COALITION INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $840 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds DANCEASPEN ↗
  • 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 FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗

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.

GreenState Credit Uni…Community Foundation …The Kenneth K Kinsey …Alliant Energy Founda…Rpc Inc Charitable Fo…Hills Bank Donor Advi…Dne Caplan Family Fou…United Way of Johnson…Hawkeye Area Communit…Greater Cedar Rapids …Reuben & Muriel Savin…Hodge Family Foundati…
GreenState Credit UnionIA32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gary Wicklund Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary Wicklund Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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