· Private foundation
Julie and Al Renken 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 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 $10k38 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity By The Cove Episcopal Churc | $31,500 |
| Tumiani Fund USA | $25,090 |
| Figge Museum of Art | $15,000 |
| Feeding America | $11,000 |
| St Matthews House | $5,000 |
| Feed The Hungry | $4,500 |
| River Bend Food Bank | $4,050 |
| Save the Children | $4,000 |
| Covenant House | $4,000 |
| The League Club | $3,500 |
| Mercy Ships | $3,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Shriners Hospital | $3,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $2,500 |
| Heifer International | $2,000 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 25 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- TFTUMAINI FUND USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $381k · revenue +65%
- FAFIGGE ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +33%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $49k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY - HEARTLANDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HFHAPI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -15%
- WCWomens Care Center Naplesone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
End hunger together.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
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…
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Motto Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 124 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 TUMAINI FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HAPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Empower House ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ART OF GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
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: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Julie and Al Renken Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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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