· Private foundation
Martha Ellen Tye 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
- $250k+2 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL COUNTY ARTS & CULTURE ALLIANCE | $260,000 |
| FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MARSHALLTOWN EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC | $80,000 |
| TRAIL RESOURCES AND IOWA LAND STEWARDS INC | $55,000 |
| MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $40,000 |
| FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION | $39,390 |
| MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| OPERA SAN ANTONIO | $25,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION | $16,000 |
| CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $16,000 |
| THE MAGIK THEATRE | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARSHALLTOWN | $12,770 |
| HOUSE OF COMPASSION | $9,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 21 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- FGFISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue ×27 · 75% of their budget
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY ARTS AND CULTURE ALLIANC DBA ARTS CULTURE ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2024 · $795k · revenue +189% · 92% of their budget
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF IOWA INC3× · 2019–2021 · $274k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- UHUNITYPOINT HEALTH-MARSHALLTOWN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -70% · 27% of their budget
- 1S13TH STREET DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $50k
- MCMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
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…
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
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.
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mhs Bobcat Alumni Fund Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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 96 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 FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ARTS AND CULTURE ALLIANC DBA ARTS CULTURE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITYPOINT HEALTH-MARSHALLTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN ↗
- Who funds Christian Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds TRAIL RESOURCES AND IOWA LAND STEWARDS INC C/O JEFF SCHNEIDER ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 13TH STREET DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MARSHALLTOWN IOWA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-YWCA ↗
- Who funds MHS BOBCAT ALUMNI FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA WORKSHOPS 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 Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Marshalltown Area United Way · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ann C Keyser Charitable Trust · The Bill & Phyllis Lane Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts · Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Martha Ellen Tye 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.
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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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