· Private foundation
Kehl 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 $10k4 grants · $12k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST COLUMBKILLE SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| DUBUQUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $7,000 |
| NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY PANTRY | $5,000 |
| DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY | $200 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
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 (FY17–20, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS2× · 2017–2018 · $500k
- SCST COLUMBKILLE2× · 2023–2024 · $250k
- DBDUBUQUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2025 · $39k
Funded once
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUEone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -94%
- HAHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +72%
- HHACAPone grant, 2020 · $31k
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.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
The visiting nurse association exists to promote and improve the health, wellness, and safety of individuals and communities through provision of comprehensive, home, and community based initiatives and services.
The finley health foundation provides financial support to the finley hospital and the dubuque visiting nurse association via ongoing fundraising activities through the cultivation and solicitation of gifts from private individuals and…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Preserve and advance the interests of the profession of pharmacy and to serve the professional needs of member pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, student pharmacists, and pharmacy owners.
The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.
To reduce morbidity, mortality, and costs associated with poisonings, through providing statewide 24-hour telephone management, consultation, poison prevention information, public and professional education and research for the people of…
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S ↗
- Who funds GOLF FOR INJURED VETERANS EVERYWHERE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FINLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kehl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kehl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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