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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$852k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$5.1MHuman Services$1.6MArts & Culture$1.3MEducation$905kHealth$418kYouth Development$291kCommunity Improvement$250kFood & Nutrition$189kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $466k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $515k
  • $250k+1 grant · $852k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE$852,000
PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCES CENTER$140,000
VERA FRENCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$75,000
TWO RIVERS YMCA INC$75,000
YWCA$65,000
IOWA LEGAL AID$60,000
TOGETHER MAKING A BETTER COMMUNITY$50,000
WORLD RELIEF QUAD CITIES$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY$37,500
THE DEANERY SCHOOL OF MUSIC$25,000
SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER$25,000
THE CENTER$25,000
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$25,000
NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
AKWAABA QC$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLOCK INC: $20k → 15%THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $18k → 15%NARRATIVES QC INC NFP: $15k → 15%CLOCK INC: $15k → 15%NARRATIVES QC INC NFP: $13k → 15%DELACERDA HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY Y: $120k → 12%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY Y: $120k → 12%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY Y: $120k → 12%NARRATIVES QC INC NFP: $10k → 15%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY Y: $120k → 12%DELACERDA HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%CLOCK INC: $10k → 15%THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $5k → 15%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $55k → 15%LIVWELL CARES: $6k → 12%LIVWELL CARES: $5k → 12%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $25k → 15%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $25k → 15%THE CENTER: $25k → 12%TAPESTRY FARMS: $15k → 12%TAPESTRY FARMS: $10k → 12%AKWAABA QC: $20k → 15%TAPESTRY FARMS: $10k → 12%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $20k → 15%TAPESTRY FARMS: $5k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $41k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 15%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 15%HAND IN HAND: $20k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $15k → 12%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 48 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
30

Total granted

$9.5M
$873k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+31%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • PM
    PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $605k · revenue +78%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA
    4× · 2019–2023 · $163k · revenue +26%
  • VF
    Vera French Community Mental Health Center Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • RC
    RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +20%
  • YO
    YMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $120k
  • NZ
    NIABI ZOO & FOREST PRESERVES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $42k
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
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

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…

Community Improvement
2
Quad City Arts Inc

Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
West Central Community Action

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.

Human Services
4
The Arc of Southeast Iowa

Provide services to people with disabilities in the local area.

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5
Northwest Community Center

To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.

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6
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

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.

Human Services
7
Area Residential Care Inc

It is the mission of Area Residential Care to empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.

Human Services
8
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center

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.

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9
The Arc of East Central Iowa

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.

Education
10
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
11
Dubuque Community Y

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,…

Human Services
12
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of the Quad Cities; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 91 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE: $5,052,600 · OtherQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLETwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $300,000 · Other+53 more: $2,294,346 · Other+53 morePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $605,000 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUS…BALLET QUAD CITIES: $145,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET QUA…QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $82,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY …COMMON CHORD: $78,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON CHO…+5 more: $63,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $480,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'…QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesQUAD CITIE…HAND IN HAND: $76,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HA…THE CLOCK INC NORRIS: $45,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FARMS: $40,000 · Human ServicesNARRATIVES QC INC NFP: $37,500 · Human ServicesCAFE ON VINE: $36,000 · Human Services+6 more: $109,000 · Human Services+6 moreRIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $300,000 · EducationSPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $125,000 · EducationSTEAM ON WHEELS: $42,616 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationVera French Community Mental Health Center Inc: $150,000 · HealthEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $75,000 · HealthUnity House of Davenport Inc: $34,376 · HealthTRANSITIONS NFP: $24,525 · HealthWEST END ALANO CLUB INC: $15,900 · HealthEVERYCHILD: $95,496 · Crime & LegalIowa Legal Aid: $87,500 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB: $22,000 · Crime & LegalQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EnvironmentNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $40,000 · Environment
Other$7,646,946Arts & Culture$973,000Human Services$948,500Education$477,616Health$299,801Crime & Legal$204,996Environment$120,000

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 budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $605,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $480,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $300,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $300,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $162,810 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetVera French Community Mental Health Center Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET QUAD CITIES: $145,000 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $137,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $130,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetQUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC: $125,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $125,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC: $100,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetEVERYCHILD: $95,496 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $92,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $87,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $82,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMON CHORD: $78,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $76,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $73,159 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTogether Making a Better Community: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE CLOCK INC NORRIS: $45,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetSTEAM ON WHEELS: $42,616 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetQUAD CITIES REGIONAL VISION: $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTAPESTRY FARMS: $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNARRATIVES QC INC NFP: $37,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetCAFE ON VINE: $36,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnity House of Davenport Inc: $34,376 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNAMI GREATER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Deanery School of Music: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTRANSITIONS NFP: $24,525 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTESTIMONIES OF HOPE INC: $23,940 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB: $22,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetAKWAABA QC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELA CERDA HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetQUAD CITIES CHAMBER FOUNDATION - IOWA: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWEST END ALANO CLUB INC: $15,900 over 1y, 29% of budgetCommunity Health Care Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE ↗
  • Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
  • 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 QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Scott County Regional…Doris & Victor Day Fo…United Way Quad CitiesMarie H Bechtel Chari…Harold R Bechtel Char…Moline FoundationThe Rock Island Commu…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Rauch Family Foundati…Mary Iva Gittins Knou…
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA96.4× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hubbell-Waterman Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hubbell-Waterman Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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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.

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 91 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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