· Private foundation
Looser-Flake Charitable 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $55,000 |
| SHERRARD CUSD #200 | $51,622 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY BETTER TOGETHER | $50,000 |
| MERCER CSD #404 | $47,375 |
| MERCER COUNTY BETTER TOGETHER | $30,000 |
| City of New Boston | $19,000 |
| Aledo Opera House Inc | $18,000 |
| United CUSD 304 | $14,697 |
| Mercer County Historical Society | $13,500 |
| Mercer County Board of Supervisors | $12,500 |
| AUGUSTANA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,106 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Moline Regional Community Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMERCER COUNTY BETTER TOGETHER6× · 2020–2025 · $413k · revenue +5% · 59% of their budget
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%
- MCMERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- LFLIMITLESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -26% · 32% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $18k
- VOVILLAGE OF NORTH HENDERSONone grant, 2022 · $18k
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 further the tax exempt charitable works of the quad city symphony orchestra association.
Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.
Community activity center
The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…
Promote arts in merced county
Support the oklahoma city community foundation through contributions to the allied arts foundation for funding arts programs that reach every county in oklahoma.
The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.
Commuity economic development and industrial development in adams county iowa.
To provide quality entertainment as an outlet for artistic achievement and an educational resource for the albany, oregon community and the greater mid-willamette valley.
Promote development of the quad cities by attracting, hosting, and supporting sporting events.
Support of the arts
To sustain and enrich our community through the arts.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 35 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 MERCER COUNTY BETTER TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIMITLESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOLINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PROJECTS FOR ALEDO INC ↗
- Who funds ALEDO MAIN STREET INC NFP ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALEDO CIVIC CENTER AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds BALLET QUAD CITIES ↗
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: Moline Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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