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Hodge Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $60,000 |
| CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM2× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +34%
- CCCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY2× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +52%
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2022–2023 · $28k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SHSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $206k · revenue +22%
- SFSOLON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENTone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -71%
- ASAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +83%
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 organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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…
Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
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.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
The organization is organized exclusively for the purpose of expanding and strengthening efforts to address the housing, shelter and service needs of lowincome residents of johnson county, iowa.
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matthew 25 and the most unlike its peers is Arenaco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOLON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SWARM COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ARENACO ↗
- Who funds NO FOOT TOO SMALL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSES INTO HOMES ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Children's HopeChest ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds unfoldingWord ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FREE LUNCH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FAITH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
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: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · United Way of Johnson & Washington Count · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Holthues Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Watts Family 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 Hodge Family 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.
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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