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Longshadow Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART | $3,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE | $2,500 |
| LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE | $1,500 |
| FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV | $1,000 |
| LORAS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| AQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC | $1,000 |
| DUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| CAMP MANITO-WISH | $1,000 |
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of your 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE2× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +103%
- FFFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +8%
- DMDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- JDJULIEN DBQ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TBTwo by Two Inc.one grant, 2018 · $3k
- LTLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +2%
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.
Engage the midwest in meaningful entertainment, education, and cultural activities. provide performing arts experiences that educate, inspire and challenge.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
Theatre cedar rapids strives to captivate and inspire through the theatrical and performing arts. tcr's vision is to be a cultural point of pride, connection, inclusion, and learning, invigorating growth in the community.
Dakota wesleyan university aspires to be a leading university that educates students to identify and develop their individual talents for successful lives in service to god and the common good.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.
The des moines symphony is a not-for-profit, professional orchestra formed in 1937 to enrich, educate, and inspire the community by performing great orchestral music. the symphony association, governed by a volunteer board of trustees and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubuque Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Lookingglass Theatre Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · Herrig Charitable 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 Longshadow 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.