· Private foundation
Lisle Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARINDA FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| WACOSA | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION | $525 |
| CLARINDA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE - SPIRITS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS | $250 |
| NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL | $200 |
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 (FY20–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WWACOSA3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +17%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +136%
- GHGRANDMAS HOUSE DAYCARE2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CKCLARINDA KIWANIS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NVNODAWAY VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $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.
City and area economic development
To further the development of Clear Lake, IA and the surrounding area for its citizens.
Economic development of city of clarinda
To invest in the future of the motor vehicle sales and service industry by awarding automotive scholarships. To develop programs and incentives with high schools, colleges, educational agencies, and the public to encourage automotive…
Membership golf course
The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
To promote the interests of the automotive service industry in missouri, kansas, iowa, nebraska, arkansas and oklahoma
The association facilitates communication, encourages sound business practices, develops constructive community and governmental relationships and promotes sound public relations with and among the automobile dealerships of colorado.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
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 27 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 CLARINDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WACOSA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRANDMAS HOUSE DAYCARE ↗
- Who funds CLARINDA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLARINDA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CLARINDA IOWA A'S BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisle Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisle Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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