· Private foundation
Martha Ellen Tye Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OPERA SAN ANTONIO | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -2%
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.
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.
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 96 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martha Ellen Tye Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha Ellen Tye Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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