Skip to content
Hodge Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$222kCrime & Legal$61kFood & Nutrition$52kYouth Development$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$11kRecreation & Sports$10kEducation$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM$60,000
CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MATTHEW 25: $250 → 9%CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 16%HOUSES INTO HOMES: $1k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $500 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
IA
CO
MO
KY
TN
GA
FL
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$139k · 3 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
30

Total granted

$139k
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
    2× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +34%
  • CC
    CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +52%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $28k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SH
    SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $206k · revenue +22%
  • SF
    SOLON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -71%
  • AS
    APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +83%
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
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
Hope Ministries

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…

Human Services
4
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

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…

—
5
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.

—
6
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
7
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
8
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

—
9
The Open Door

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Central Iowa Shelter & Services

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matthew 25; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $206,000 · OtherSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICESDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $60,500 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM+23 more: $20,540 · Other+23 moreCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $51,000 · Food & NutritionCORALVILLE CO…+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionYOUNG LIFE: $27,700 · Youth DevelopmentSOLON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE SWARM COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyARENACO: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$287,040Food & Nutrition$51,500Youth Development$27,700Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Housing & Shelter$16,000Philanthropy$10,000Recreation & Sports$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $206,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $60,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $51,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $27,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SWARM COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARENACO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNO FOOT TOO SMALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSES INTO HOMES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's HopeChest: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetunfoldingWord: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CITY HOSPICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LUNCH PROGRAM: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH ACADEMY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Hawkeye Area Communit…United Way of Johnson…Rpc Inc Charitable Fo…Hills Bank Donor Advi…Greater Cedar Rapids …Holthues TrustFirst Interstate Banc…Watts Family Foundati…
Community Foundation of Johnson CountyIA32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hodge Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hodge Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hodge Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hodge Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Hodge Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home