· Private foundation
John J & Judy a Arledge Charitable
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURLINGTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $23,000 |
| HEART SONG INC | $10,000 |
| BURLINGTON AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA SAN ANTONIO | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $2,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WEST IL | $1,000 |
| LEOPOLD LANDSCAPE ALLIANCE | $100 |
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 (FY23–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- SFSCC FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2022 · $184k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2018–2022 · $151k
- BTBURLINGTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2024 · $61k · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SLST LUKE CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2019 · $10k
- HHHOPE HAVEN INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
Promote the sport of pickleball in the Siouxland area. Provide members places to play, equipment and instruction in the sport. Hold tournaments, leagues, and clinics.
To support programs of the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department.
Child day care center
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
Child advocacy
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To provide a source of daycare to the citizens of sanborn, iowa.
To improve member newspapers
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart Song Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 BURLINGTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds HEART SONG INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds LEOPOLD LANDSCAPE ALLIANCE ↗
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 · 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 J & Judy a Arledge Charitable 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.