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John and Cindy Family Foundation at a glance

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John and Cindy Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$990k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.6MArts & Culture$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MEnvironment$420kHealth$410kYouth Development$330kEducation$220kAnimals$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $900k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY FOUNDATION$200,000
NAPLES COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH (NCH)$200,000
MONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT$100,000
COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS$100,000
MATTHEW 25$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORRIDOR$100,000
CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
TANAGER PLACE$40,000
ARTIS-NAPLES$25,000
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MATTHEW 25: $100k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $100k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $100k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $25k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $20k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $100k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 25% of John and Cindy Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 65%.

John and Cindy Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 15 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$4.1M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+32%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BI
    BRUCEMORE INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +181% · 40% of their budget
  • M2
    MATTHEW 25
    5× · 2020–2025 · $345k · revenue +46%
  • MR
    MONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT
    4× · 2021–2025 · $330k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • LC
    LASANSKY CORP GALLERY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HA
    HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • BW
    B WELL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +69%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
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.

—
3
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
4
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
5
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

—
7
Counselors of Real Estate

Cre was established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. the purpose of the organization is to serve as an information resource and to provide its members with…

Community Improvement
8
Community Foundation of Chippewa Co

To enable donors to achieve their philanthropic goals, to meet changing community needs, thereby benefiting the communities, people and other nonprofit organizations of chippewa county.

Philanthropy
9
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

—
10
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
11
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…

Philanthropy
12
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc

The community foundation of the holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Monarch Research Project. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY FOUNDATION: $800,000 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATIONNAPLES COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH (NCH): $400,000 · OtherNAPLES COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH (NCH)BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORRIDOR: $300,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORRIDORLASANSKY CORP GALLERY: $100,000 · OtherLASANSKY CORP GALLERYNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $90,000 · Other+4 more: $71,000 · OtherGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,465,992 · PhilanthropyGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY…ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATIONBRUCEMORE INC: $1,045,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCEMORE INCTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CE…ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INCCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $70,000 · Arts & CultureMATTHEW 25: $345,000 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesMONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT: $330,000 · AnimalsNAPLES ZOO INC: $40,000 · AnimalsCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationB WELL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTANAGER PLACE: $100,000 · Health
Other$1,761,000Philanthropy$1,555,992Arts & Culture$1,415,000Human Services$445,000Animals$370,000Education$215,000Health$100,000

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 budgetGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,465,992 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC: $1,045,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetMATTHEW 25: $345,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetMONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT: $330,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $70,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB WELL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPROSPECT MEADOWS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Alliant Energy Founda…The Hall-Perrine Foun…GreenState Credit Uni…Greater Cedar Rapids …TrueNorth Legacy Foun…United Fire Group Fou…Rohde Family Charitab…The McIntyre Foundati…John P & Lawrence J G…United Way of East Ce…The Kenneth K Kinsey …The Slappey Family Fo…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · TrueNorth Legacy Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · United Way of East Central Iowa · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · The Slappey 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 John and Cindy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Cindy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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