· Private foundation
Hartig Charitable Foundation 1015003512
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTIG FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $382,513 |
| MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| BLUFF STROKES ART CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| OPENING DOORS TERESA SHELTER | $1,000 |
| AREA RESIDENTIAL CARE | $1,000 |
| FARLEY LIBRARY & COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $399k 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
- ARArea Residential Care Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +13%
- HFHillcrest Family Services Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +4%
- DMDUBUQUE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- HFHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NINORTHEAST IA BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- LCLORAS COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
Providing compassionate care for persons with serious and terminal illness and their loved ones.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.
Support student achievement by promoting investment in the Dubuque Public Schools.
Turn fear into confidence by meeting the real needs of women and men and providing strength for life's tough choices.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Our mission is to reduce poverty, strengthen families and empower communities in the 30 most northeast counties of Iowa.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Divine Mercy University is a Catholic graduate school of psychology and counseling, founded in 1999. The University is dedicated to the scientific study of psychology and counseling with a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage and…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubuque County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Imagine the Possibilities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Area Residential Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine the Possibilities ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
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: Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Butler Family Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hartig Charitable Foundation 1015003512 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.