· Private foundation
Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDLY HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CHRISTIAN CARE | $2,500 |
| RIVER BEND FOODBANK | $2,500 |
| SCOTT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,750 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF QC | $1,500 |
| MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE | $1,472 |
| HANDICAPPED DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $1,250 |
| GERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER | $1,200 |
| THE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER | $1,000 |
| NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES | $1,000 |
| QUAD CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC | $1,000 |
| TAPESTRY FARMS | $1,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BLUES SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +14% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- RBRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +51%
- TFTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA5× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +19%
- NSNorth Scott Educational Foundation5× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- JTJUNIOR THEATRE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -27%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +13%
- WPWINNIE'S PLACEone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 ywca is driven by our mission of empowering women and eliminating racism. the ywca provides childcare and youth programming to assist families in our community. aquatic and recreational programs are also provided for men and women in…
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 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.
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,…
Nscs empowers each person to realize potential, pursue dreams and enjoy life. services provided are: supported community living, day habilitation, adult day care, respite, and/or cdac services to persons with disabilities.
The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.
Provide services to people with disabilities in the local area.
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
It is the mission of Area Residential Care to empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.
Providing residential, vocational, education, and recreational services to people with mental disabilities in a caring, supportive environment where each individual is encouraged to reach their highest potential
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
To improve the quality of life for all individuals by providing skills training and helping people find jobs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friendly House of Davenport Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Living Proof Exhibit. 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 39 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 2% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 60 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 RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
- Who funds North Scott Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CARE ↗
- Who funds COMMON CHORD ↗
- Who funds Unity House of Davenport Inc ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO ↗
- Who funds THE 180 ZONE ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT ↗
- Who funds LIVING PROOF EXHIBIT ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY FARMS ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds QUAD-CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIV WELL CARES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BLUES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES 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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Moline Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Modern Woodmen of America
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 Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw 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.
- Friendly House Inc — 3% 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.