· Private foundation
Gleeson 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SIOUXLAND | $50,000 |
| IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION | $37,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +6%
- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $340k · revenue +154%
- FOFRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC3× · 2022–2024 · $163k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2024 · $25k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS HOMEone grant, 2018 · $15k
- MFMERCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
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…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.
The mission of the sioux city regional convention center and visitors bureau is to promote tourism and the hospitality industry in the greater siouxland area.
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…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · Peterson Family Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Aalfs Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Michael & Marjory Bennett Foundation · Yockey Foundation · Greenberg Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Pella Rolscreen 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 Gleeson 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.