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Gleeson Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$912kPhilanthropy$528kEducation$253kYouth Development$92kArts & Culture$85kRecreation & Sports$63kHealth$50kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$100,000
MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY$75,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SIOUXLAND$50,000
IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION$37,500
BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND$10,000
SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$5,000
SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $38k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 16 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$2.0M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IN
    IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $340k · revenue +154%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $163k · revenue +13%
  • MU
    MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of the siouxland area

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2
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Association
Arts & Culture
3
State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education
4
Sioux Falls Environmental Access Inc
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5
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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6
Common Good 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.

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7
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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8
Realtor Association of the Sioux Empire Inc

To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.

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9
Sioux City Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau

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.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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12
United Way of North Central 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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $225,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYDICKINSON COUNTY NATURE CENTER: $100,000 · OtherDICKINSON COUNTY NATURE CENTERDICKINSON COUNTY TRAILS BOARD: $62,500 · OtherDICKINSON COUNTY TRAILS BOARDNATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,000 · OtherSIOUX CITY ART CENTER: $40,000 · OtherBISHOP HEELAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $35,000 · Other+8 more: $115,000 · Other+8 moreUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $490,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND …SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC: $162,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF LAKESI…MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationMORNINGSIDE UNIVE…BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationBRIAR CLIFF UNIVE…+2 more: $12,500 · EducationIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $340,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURAL HER…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · HealthIOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $44,000 · Human ServicesSIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$967,500Philanthropy$512,500Education$375,000Environment$340,000Youth Development$62,000Health$50,000Human Services$44,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $490,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $340,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC: $162,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $44,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBuena Vista University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Missouri River Histor…Peterson Family Found…The Roth & Letch Fami…The Chesterman Family…Aalfs Family Foundati…Baird Foundation IncMichael & Marjory Ben…Yockey FoundationGreenberg FoundationBerenstein Family Fou…Waitt FoundationPella Rolscreen Found…
Missouri River Historical Development IncIA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 28 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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