· Private foundation
Joseph and Helen Ertl 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BECKMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $58,000 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH | $31,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,400 |
| GMHC RESOURCE CENTER | $3,000 |
| RURAL IOWA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| GUTTENBERG MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| CLARITY CLINIC | $2,400 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE | $2,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE BLACK HILLS | $2,000 |
| MONUMENT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| FOCUS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMERCY MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +59%
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +144%
- ODOPENING DOORS8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +247%
Funded once
- SPST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $2k
- GEGuttenberg Economic & Industrial Development Commione grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -91%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL CLUB PARKone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
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.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 149 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Area Residential Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Heartland Charitable Trust · Dyersville Area Foundation for the Future Inc · Herrig Charitable Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Flynn Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · The Butler Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph and Helen Ertl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Helen Ertl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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