· Private foundation
John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $36,800 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CEDAR AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS INC | $21,000 |
| NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLARBORATIVE | $20,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 | $20,000 |
| KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LINN-MAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PATRONS FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| REVIVAL THEATRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA | $10,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $10,000 |
| EASTERN IOWA ARTS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology8× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +65%
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +985%
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $106k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- MLMARION LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $35k
- SVSOUTH VERMILLION COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $23k
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.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in 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.
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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.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
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To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchestra Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Square Meals 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 83 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 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds LINN-MAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Iowa Arts Academy ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MARION SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds RED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
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: Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · The McIntyre Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Dupaco RW Hoefer 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 P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd 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.
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