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Hilker-Pedretti Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$135kHousing & Shelter$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$12kEducation$8kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$603k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WARM KIDS WARM HEARTS$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 10%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$196k · 8 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +228% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$196k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+228%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Housing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • SH
    SHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME
    3× · 2017–2019 · $46k · revenue +440%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +9%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • AI
    Access Incorporated
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +22%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • BH
    BRIDGE HOME
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
2
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
3
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
4
Iowa Medical Society

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

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5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
Iowa City Hospice Inc

To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

Human Services
7
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
10
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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11
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.

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12
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Iowa Donor Network. 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

8 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. 8 of the 20 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALS ASSOCIATION: $59,500 · OtherALS ASSOCIATIONMADRID NURSING HOME: $26,569 · OtherMADRID NURSING HOMEIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOONE COUNTY SALVATION ARMY: $12,500 · OtherBOONE COUNTY SALVATION ARMYWARM KIDS WARM HEARTS: $10,500 · OtherWARM KIDS WARM HEARTSBRIDGE HOME: $10,000 · OtherBRIDGE HOMESOUTHEAST POLK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $7,500 · Other+7 more: $21,620 · Other+7 moreSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME: $46,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER HOUSING CO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…Access Incorporated: $17,997 · EmploymentFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $12,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$163,189Housing & Shelter$46,000Human Services$27,500Employment$17,997Food & Nutrition$12,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME: $46,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Incorporated: $17,997 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA DONOR NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Access Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA DONOR NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗

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.

Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hilker-Pedretti Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hilker-Pedretti Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 20 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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