· Private foundation
Herrig Charitable Foundation
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 $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $10,000 |
| DUBUQUE CITY YOUTH BALLET | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $4,242 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $3,279 |
| ST COLUMBKILLE'S CHURCH | $1,309 |
| NO FOOT TOO SMALL | $1,050 |
| TASSAJARA MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTER | $1,002 |
| DUBUQUE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $1,000 |
| PROJECT ROOTED | $1,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $622 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $250 |
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $100 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +35%
- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC3× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +22%
- NFNO FOOT TOO SMALL6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- DCDubuque County Historical Societyone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%
- MMMERCY MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +47%
- HFHOLY FAMILY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
The visiting nurse association exists to promote and improve the health, wellness, and safety of individuals and communities through provision of comprehensive, home, and community based initiatives and services.
To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.
We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.dubuque mercy health foundation is a member of mercy health…
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
Support student achievement by promoting investment in the Dubuque Public Schools.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
To support st. luke's hospital as the premier resource for improving the health of eastern iowans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and the most unlike its peers is Project Rooted Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NO FOOT TOO SMALL ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ROOTED INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COUNTY RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
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: James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Butler Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Flynn Family Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd
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 Herrig Charitable 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.
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% 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.