· Private foundation
John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $194k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND | $84,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $60,000 |
| BURLINGTON STEM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BURLINGTON CAPITOL THEATRE | $30,000 |
| TRANSITIONS DMC INC | $28,500 |
| BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER | $28,500 |
| HEART SONG INC | $20,000 |
| BURLINGTON CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BURLINGTON PARKS | $20,000 |
| ART CENTER OF BURLINGTON | $15,000 |
| BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FDN | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $7,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| BART HOWARD FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| HOMESTEAD 1839 | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- BABURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +37%
- BABURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +27%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HIHEARTSONG INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -9%
- BRBURLINGTON RIVERFRONT ENTERTAINMENTone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue -11%
- BABALANCE AUTISMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +55%
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.
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
The organization was created to own the property and operate a childcare facility serving the east mills community school district and the surrounding areas.
Provide housing and enviromental learning
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
The acquisition and restoration of the capitol theater and isu buildings to provide a venue for performing arts events in burlington, iowa. in 2012 began operating as a regional performing arts center for southeast iowa and west central…
To provide fine arts to dubuque county
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Iowa Symphony Association Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Burlington Stem Foundation 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 32 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 53 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 SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Transitions DMC Inc ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON STEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CITY HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART SONG INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSONG INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON RIVERFRONT ENTERTAINMENT ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BALANCE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS WORKSHOP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ART GUILD OF BURLINGTON ↗
- Who funds BALANCE AUTISM ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
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: Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation · Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc · Kings Daughters Home for Old People · Winegard Foundation · Jani-Dhuna Foundation · Burlington W Burlington Area United Way · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust 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.
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.