· Private foundation
Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust
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.
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 |
| Togather Making a Better Community | $50,000 |
| Community Health Care Inc | $50,000 |
| Grow Quad Cities - Iowa | $50,000 |
| Rejuvenate Housing Inc | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- KHKINNAS HOUSE OF LOVE INCone grant, 2023 · $75k
- IUIndiana University School of Medicione grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
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…
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds TESTIMONIES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HAV Life ↗
- Who funds NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- 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 EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KINNAS HOUSE OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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