· Private foundation
Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $607k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,015,000 |
| Putnam Museum | $250,000 |
| YWCA of the Quad Cities | $107,000 |
| YMCA of the IA Mississippi Valley | $100,000 |
| Assumption High School | $100,000 |
| Christian Friendliness Association | $50,000 |
| River Bend Food Reservior | $50,000 |
| The Moody Church | $50,000 |
| Steam on Wheels | $50,000 |
| Grow Quad Cities Fund-IOWA | $50,000 |
| Vera French Foundation | $50,000 |
| Yellowstone Forever | $40,000 |
| Ballet Quad Cities | $40,000 |
| Cornbeelt Energy Club Bix | $40,000 |
| Martin Luther King Jr Center Inc | $40,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 20% 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 +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 14 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +33%
- PCPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $965k · revenue +35%
- PMPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $598k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PRPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +151% · 45% of their budget
- FOFriends of Davenport Libraryone grant, 2023 · $150k
- FAFIGGE ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -27%
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.
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.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
To deliver programs and to conduct research for the benefit of students, educators, emerging leaders and employers that expand their knowledge and enhance their individual responsibility and leadership skills.
The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…
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…
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.
The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
Cancer support community iowa & nw illinois uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of the Quad Cities and the most unlike its peers is Holy Land Rosary. 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 37 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 99 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES CHAMBER FOUNDATION - IOWA ↗
- Who funds BALLET QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NARRATIVES QC INC NFP ↗
- Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEAM ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds REJUVENATE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Together Making a Better Community ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLANDMILAN LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH FILMS ↗
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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · United Way Quad Cities · Moline Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw
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 Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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.
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