· Private foundation
Leonard a Good Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF OGDEN | $115,000 |
| STAN FRIESEN SENIOR TRIP INC | $70,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL | $62,000 |
| HIDDEN ACRES | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| CAMP FIRE OF IOWA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| YOUTH & SHELTER SERVICES | $24,000 |
| OGDEN FOOD PANTRY | $21,000 |
| HEART OF IOWA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $17,500 |
| BOONE GREENE COUNTY PROBATION | $16,000 |
| OGDEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| GRANDVIEW APARTMENTS | $15,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $12,000 |
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, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- SFSTAN FRIESEN SENIOR TRIP INC7× · 2018–2025 · $390k · revenue +46% · 72% of their budget
- BCBOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +99% · 45% of their budget
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BCBOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +11%
- HOHEART OF IOWA TRANSITone grant, 2023 · $44k
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.
Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
The association provides a house for iowa state farmhouse members, guides and directs facility upkeep and improvements, provides scholarships for iowa state farmhouse members and supports the international farmhouse association.
The iowa gold star military museum's mission is to honor and depict the military experience of iowa citizens in all wars, homeland defense and iowa service. the museum's purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit materials that illustrate…
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
Dedicated to acquiring, preserving,interpeting, and displaying the historical artifacts and records of Boone County.
Preserve local history and be a resource for genealogical research for Benton County.
The mission of the foundation for the boone area humane society, inc. is to support the boone area humane society by attracting, holding and investing gifts from donors, to promote humane animal care, to encourage facility improvement and…
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Heart of Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Grandview Apartments. 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 33 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 101 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 STAN FRIESEN SENIOR TRIP INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDVIEW APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds IOWA RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTIN HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds IOWA ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds GENESIS DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds IOWA GARDENING FOR GOOD ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation · Boone County Force · Lsb Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Robert V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Adolph & Rosetta Peterson Charity Foundation · Athene Charitable Foundation · Ita Group 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 Leonard a Good Testamentary Trust 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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