· Private foundation
Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| The Moody Church | $50,000 |
| Steam on Wheels | $50,000 |
| Grow Quad Cities Fund-IOWA | $50,000 |
| Christian Friendliness Association | $50,000 |
| River Bend Food Reservior | $50,000 |
| Vera French Foundation | $50,000 |
| Ballet Quad Cities | $40,000 |
| Cornbeelt Energy Club Bix | $40,000 |
| Martin Luther King Jr Center Inc | $40,000 |
| Yellowstone Forever | $40,000 |
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 (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. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +41%
Funded once
- PRPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +151% · 45% of their budget
- FAFIGGE ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -27%
- FOFriends of Davenport Libraryone grant, 2023 · $150k
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.
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…
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 99 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 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 THE ABBEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NARRATIVES QC INC NFP ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEAM ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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