· Private foundation
Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Common Chord | $375,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $330,000 |
| Project Renewal | $277,200 |
| Child Serve Foundation | $250,000 |
| Scott County Family Y | $200,000 |
| Assumption High School | $140,000 |
| River Bend Food Reservoir | $125,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $90,000 |
| One Eighty Zone Inc | $85,000 |
| Hav Life Foundation | $80,000 |
| Testimonies of Hope Inc | $60,000 |
| Community Health Care Inc | $50,000 |
| Togather Making a Better Community | $50,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa | $50,000 |
| Rejuvenate Housing Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 14 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $899k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +53%
- PCPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +47%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA6× · 2020–2025 · $465k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- SCSCOTT COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $95k
- IUIndiana University School of Medicione grant, 2020 · $75k
- KHKINNAS HOUSE OF LOVE INCone grant, 2023 · $75k
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 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…
The dubuque community y, utilizing christian principles, creates opportunities for growth, leadership, and empowerment for women, men, and youth by building healthy spirit, mind, and body with emphasis on respect, responsibility, caring,…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Riverside theatre strengthens the cultural fabric of iowa city through intimate, engaging productions from classics to new works, fostering a deeper appreciation for the dramatic arts. see schedule o for continuation.
Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.
The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.
The iowa center's mission is to empower iowans with the potential to succeed as they pursue opportunities for financial success. the iowa center achieves its mission by delivering three lines of direct service that open up small business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of the Quad Cities and the most unlike its peers is Testimonies of Hope Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
53 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. 53 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMON CHORD ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds TESTIMONIES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAV Life ↗
- Who funds Together Making a Better Community ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds REJUVENATE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Unity House of Davenport Inc ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds The Deanery School of Music ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Moline Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust
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 Marie H Bechtel Charitable 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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