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Holthues Trust

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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

International$3.9MEnvironment$2.2MCivil Rights$1.7MArts & Culture$992kCrime & Legal$974kScience & Tech$966kPhilanthropy$850kHuman Services$843kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $495k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for Victims of Torture$150,000
Disability Rights International$120,000
Nonviolent Peaceforce$110,000
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists$110,000
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$100,000
Muscatine Center for Social Action$100,000
Global Philanthropy Partnership$100,000
Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine$100,000
Environmental Law & Policy Center$100,000
Women's Global Education Project$90,000
Just Detention International$80,000
Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine$75,000
MN Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)$75,000
Voices and Faces Project The$75,000
Partners in Health$50,000
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 (FY18–24, $763k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%National Indigenous Women's Resource Center: $10k → 18%Rehearsing Change Inc: $10k → 16%Houses Into Homes: $10k → 15%SisterSong: $10k → 13%Voices and Faces Project The: $100k → 14%Houses Into Homes: $6k → 15%VOICES AND FACES PROJECT THE: $100k → 14%Voices and Faces Project The: $100k → 14%The Voices and Faces Project: $75k → 14%Table to Table: $25k → 15%Voices and Faces Project The: $75k → 14%Table to Table: $25k → 15%Table to Table: $25k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $20k → 15%CRISIS CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $10k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $10k → 15%Table to Table: $10k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $10k → 15%Flickinger Learning Center: $30k → 12%CRISIS CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $2k → 15%Appetite for Change: $10k → 11%Appetite for Change: $10k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $10k → 11%Appetite for Change: $10k → 11%Appetite for Change: $10k → 11%Youthlink: $50k → 11%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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Holthues Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 28%.

Holthues Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 69 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
68

Total granted

$13M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • DR
    DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $971k · revenue +56%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $969k · revenue +61%
  • NP
    Nonviolent Peaceforce
    8× · 2017–2024 · $891k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE - NEW TACTICS
    one grant, 2019 · $143k
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $91k · revenue +202%
  • TF
    TREES FOREVER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue -21%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
3
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

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6
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
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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9
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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10
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First; the most unlike its peers is Mississippi Immigrant Rights Allian. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 158 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/112
Grantees still filing
76/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $860,500 · OtherBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $650,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONMN Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA): $445,000 · OtherMN Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)GlobeMed NFP: $393,500 · OtherGlobeMed NFPSENIOR RESOURCES INC: $230,000 · OtherWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $643,000 · OtherWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECTTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECT: $450,000 · OtherTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECTPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $250,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $281,000 · Other+94 more: $2,527,500 · Other+94 moreTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $969,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTI…Nonviolent Peaceforce: $891,000 · InternationalNonviolent Peaceforc…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $200,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S…COLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC: $130,000 · International+15 more: $470,500 · International+15 moreENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $795,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURAL…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $90,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…The Ocean Foundation: $90,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Fo…TREES FOREVER INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $80,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST: $60,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH: $60,000 · Environment+11 more: $240,000 · Environment+11 moreDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $971,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $75,000 · Civil RightsJUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL: $891,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $32,500 · Crime & LegalMUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION: $785,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER: $60,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $540,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP: $300,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,730,500International$2,660,500Environment$1,595,500Civil Rights$1,046,000Crime & Legal$923,500Community Improvement$870,000Philanthropy$850,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $971,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $969,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNonviolent Peaceforce: $891,000 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetJUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL: $891,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $860,500 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $795,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION: $785,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $643,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $540,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECT: $450,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetGlobeMed NFP: $393,500 over 5y, 26% of budgetGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP: $300,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $281,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCES INC: $230,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCATINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $148,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetCOLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC: $130,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $125,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $90,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTREES FOREVER INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC: $80,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP EDUCATION FUND: $80,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetONE VOICE MIXED CHORUS: $72,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYouthprise: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST: $60,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH: $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $55,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $54,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFoundation for Sustainable Development: $53,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBUR OAK LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFREE PRESS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOTS: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $45,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
  • Who funds JUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
  • Who funds THE VOICES & FACES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds GlobeMed NFP ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds MUSCATINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ONE VOICE MIXED CHORUS ↗
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Community Foundation …Saint Paul & Minnesot…HNI Charitable Founda…Community Foundation …The Kenneth K Kinsey …Amalgamated Charitabl…The McKnight Foundati…GreenState Credit Uni…Mightycause Charitabl…The K FoundationThe Jamf Nation Globa…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN25.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · HNI Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The McKnight Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global 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 Holthues Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holthues Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Holthues Trust?

Find your warmest path to Holthues Trust 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 158 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.

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