· Private foundation
Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Wall Lake IA | $6,800 |
| Sac Community Center | $5,000 |
| City of Lanesboro Iowa | $5,000 |
| City of Odebolt IA | $5,000 |
| City of Early Iowa | $5,000 |
| Breda Day Care Center Inc | $5,000 |
| Lakeview Iowa Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Carroll Are Child Care | $5,000 |
| City of Schaller IA | $5,000 |
| Manning Betterment Foundation | $5,000 |
| City of Lytton Iowa | $4,000 |
| Lake View Foundation | $3,961 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| City of Lake View Iowa | $2,500 |
| Sac County ISU Extensuon Office | $2,139 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCity of Wall Lake IA8× · 2017–2025 · $98k
- COCity of Lake View Iowa6× · 2017–2025 · $41k
- AFARCADIA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION4× · 2018–2023 · $33k
Funded once
- COCity of Sac City Iowaone grant, 2023 · $16k
- ESEast Sac County Sshoolone grant, 2023 · $14k
- LWLil Wildcat Energy Centerone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
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.
To raise funds in Carroll, Iowa to be used for the benefit of the Carroll Public Library
Support & promote sac city, ia
Support the City of Prairie du Chien Fire Department.
To establish an endowment fund to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Glidden, Iowa
Educating the public on the role of the courts in society
The oelwein fire fighres foundation is founded to help support the oelwein fire department in fire protection of the citizens of oelwein, iowa.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Glidden Area Firefighters Association ↗
- Who funds BREDA DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA LIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sac County Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mat Rats Wrestling Club ↗
- Who funds SAC COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MANNING BETTERMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE VIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL STRINGS ATTACHED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust · Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc · Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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