· Private foundation
Lohse Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $275,000 |
| YOUTH SHELTER SERVICES | $125,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 20 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +30%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $375k · revenue +11%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FCFEDERATED CHURCH OF BONDURANTone grant, 2017 · $109k
- ISIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +76%
- SBST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -37%
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 foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
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.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Follow Hard Ministries. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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 46 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 STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds BONDURANT-FARRAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIS HAVEN RANCH CO ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANDO CANCER ↗
- Who funds CHRIS NORTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAIN TO INSPIRE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA DONOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Polk County 4-H & FFA Fair Associat ion ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds BONDURANT SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW HARD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SHELTERED REALITY INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Ita Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · United Way Worldwide
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 Lohse Family 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 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.