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John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust at a glance

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John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$401k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$960kArts & Culture$594kEducation$536kCommunity Improvement$278kHousing & Shelter$217kHuman Services$181kHealth$110kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $194k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FRIENDS OF BURLINGTON PARKS$20,000
HEART SONG INC$20,000
BURLINGTON CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEART SONG INC: $25k → 9%THE HOMESTEAD: $10k → 10%HEART SONG INC: $20k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $25k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $20k → 15%HEARTSONG INC: $20k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $15k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $10k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $10k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $10k → 15%BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $10k → 15%MILESTONES AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $4k → 15%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 36 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
12

Total granted

$3.1M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-9%

Still filing today

42%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther
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

  • BA
    BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +37%
  • BA
    BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • HI
    HEARTSONG INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -9%
  • BR
    BURLINGTON RIVERFRONT ENTERTAINMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue -11%
  • BA
    BALANCE AUTISMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +55%
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
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation
Education
2
Apple Daycare Inc

Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.

Human Services
3
East Mills Child Care Solutions

The organization was created to own the property and operate a childcare facility serving the east mills community school district and the surrounding areas.

Human Services
4
Iowa Beta Riverside Corporation

Provide housing and enviromental learning

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5
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
6
Iowa Sports Expo Group Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Technology Association of Iowa Education Foundation
Community Improvement
9
The Capitol Theater Foundation of Burlington Iowa

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Dubuque County Fine Arts Society

To provide fine arts to dubuque county

Arts & Culture
11
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
12
Grand View Child Development Center Inc

Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Iowa Symphony Association Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY-BURLINGTON AREA: $460,000 · OtherUNITED WAY-BURLINGTON AREASCC FOUNDATION: $420,000 · OtherSCC FOUNDATIONBURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FDN: $230,000 · OtherBURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FDNBURLINGTON CAPITOL THEATRE: $195,000 · OtherBURLINGTON CAPITOL THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDES MOINES CTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $110,000 · OtherBURLINGTON NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherART CENTER OF BURLINGTON: $90,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND: $84,000 · Other+32 more: $610,500 · Other+32 moreSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $257,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST…GREAT RIVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationGREAT RIV…BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $143,500 · Housing & ShelterTransitions DMC Inc: $73,500 · Housing & ShelterBURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHEART SONG INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesHEARTSONG INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBALANCE AUTISM: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $75,000 · InternationalBURLINGTON STEM FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Science & TechCITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Religion
Other$2,454,500Education$282,000Housing & Shelter$217,000Human Services$178,500International$75,000Science & Tech$70,000Religion$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $257,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetBURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $143,500 over 9y, 17% of budgetBURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC: $100,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $75,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTransitions DMC Inc: $73,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetBURLINGTON STEM FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $70,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetCITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetYOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEART SONG INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHEARTSONG INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBURLINGTON RIVERFRONT ENTERTAINMENT: $20,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBURLINGTON CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBALANCE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPLAYERS WORKSHOP INCORPORATED: $14,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetART GUILD OF BURLINGTON: $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $8,900 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBURLINGTON STEAMBOAT DAYS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMILESTONES AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Harry & Virginia Murr…Alliant Energy Founda…Carl A Nelson Charita…Southeast Iowa Region…Kings Daughters Home …Winegard FoundationJani-Dhuna FoundationBurlington W Burlingt…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Harry & Virginia Murray FoundationMN47.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 H Witte Jr Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–50%
    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 53 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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