· Private foundation
Hubbell-Waterman Fndn
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $466k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $515k
- $250k+1 grant · $852k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE | $852,000 |
| PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCES CENTER | $140,000 |
| TWO RIVERS YMCA INC | $75,000 |
| VERA FRENCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $75,000 |
| YWCA | $65,000 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $60,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF QUAD CITIES | $50,000 |
| TOGETHER MAKING A BETTER COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $37,500 |
| THE CENTER | $25,000 |
| QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE DEANERY SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER | $20,000 |
| QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $913k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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
- PMPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $605k · revenue +39%
- TFTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA4× · 2019–2023 · $163k · revenue +26%
- VFVera French Community Mental Health Center Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- RCRIVERMONT COLLEGIATEone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +20%
- YOYMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $120k
- NZNIABI ZOO & FOREST PRESERVES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $42k
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 quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…
Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Provide services to people with disabilities in the local area.
To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
It is the mission of Area Residential Care to empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
The arc of east central iowa empowers individuals with disabilties and their families to engage in lifelong opportunities to live, learn, work, play, and advocate with full dignity and inclusion in their communities.
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…
The dubuque community y, utilizing christian principles, creates opportunities for growth, leadership, and empowerment for women, men, and youth by building healthy spirit, mind, and body with emphasis on respect, responsibility, caring,…
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of the Quad Cities and the most unlike its peers is Testimonies of Hope 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 27 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 91 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 PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
- Who funds Vera French Community Mental Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BALLET QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON CHORD ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Together Making a Better Community ↗
- Who funds THE CLOCK INC NORRIS ↗
- Who funds STEAM ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES REGIONAL VISION ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY FARMS ↗
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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Moline Foundation · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Modern Woodmen of America · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw
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 Hubbell-Waterman Fndn 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Hubbell-Waterman Fndn?
Find your warmest path to Hubbell-Waterman Fndn 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.