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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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$50kArts & Culture$38kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$24kEducation$22kYouth Development$20kReligion$10kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$510k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN CARE$2,500
FRIENDLY HOUSE$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
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$1,000
QUAD CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC$1,000
TAPESTRY FARMS$1,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES$1,000
NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BLUES SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $3k → 12%MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $4k → 15%MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $2k → 15%MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $1k → 15%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $1k → 12%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $1k → 12%MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $800 → 15%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $750 → 12%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $750 → 12%ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $500 → 15%LIV WELL CARES INC: $500 → 12%LIV WELL CARES INC: $500 → 12%LIVWELL CARES: $500 → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $1k → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $1k → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $1k → 12%TAPESTRY FARMS: $1k → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $600 → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $500 → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $500 → 12%HAND-IN-HAND: $1k → 12%HAND-IN-HAND: $750 → 12%HAND-IN-HAND: $500 → 12%HAND-IN-HAND: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 36 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
18

Total granted

$190k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RB
    RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR
    7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +51%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA
    5× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +19%
  • NS
    North Scott Educational Foundation
    5× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST ANTHONY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ywca of the Quad Cities

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…

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2
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

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…

Community Improvement
3
Quad Cities Cultural & Educational Supporting Charitable Trust

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.

Philanthropy
4
Dubuque Community Y

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,…

Human Services
5
North Star Community Services Inc

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.

Employment
6
Quad Cities Chamber Foundation - Iowa

The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.

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7
The Arc of Southeast Iowa

Provide services to people with disabilities in the local area.

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8
Iowa City Downtown Self Supported Municipal Improvement District

Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.

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9
Area Residential Care Inc

It is the mission of Area Residential Care to empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.

Human Services
10
Mid-Step Services Inc

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

Human Services
11
West Central Community Action

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.

Human Services
12
Goodwill Industries of Central Iowa

To improve the quality of life for all individuals by providing skills training and helping people find jobs.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friendly House of Davenport Iowa; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $18,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWASCOTT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $7,950 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF: $5,350 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OFARGROW'S HOUSE OF HEALING & HOPE: $4,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MS VALLEY: $4,500 · OtherHUMILITY HOMES: $4,000 · OtherQUAD CITIES ARTS: $3,500 · OtherTHE 180 ZONE: $7,250 · OtherTHE 180 ZONE+28 more: $40,478 · Other+28 moreMARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO: $7,372 · Human ServicesMARRIAGE AND …LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $4,600 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERV…PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $3,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT RENEW…TAPESTRY FARMS: $3,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FARM…HAND IN HAND: $2,750 · Human ServicesHAND IN HANDFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUS…LIV WELL CARES INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesLIV WELL CARE…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesCOMMON CHORD: $8,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMON CHORDQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,250 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY SY…GERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER: $3,950 · Arts & CultureGERMAN AMERI…THE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MIDWEST …QUAD CITY ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI VALLEY BLUES SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $950 · Arts & CultureRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $20,917 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND …EMPOWERING ABILITIES: $10,330 · HealthEMPOWERIN…Unity House of Davenport Inc: $7,650 · HealthUnity Hou…North Scott Educational Foundation: $12,000 · EducationNorth Sco…ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · EducationST AMBROS…STEAM ON WHEELS: $1,000 · EducationSTEAM ON …CHRISTIAN CARE: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$95,528Human Services$25,722Arts & Culture$24,150Food & Nutrition$20,917Health$17,980Education$17,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $20,917 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Scott Educational Foundation: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $10,330 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CARE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON CHORD: $8,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUnity House of Davenport Inc: $7,650 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO: $7,372 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE: $7,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $4,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER: $3,950 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER: $3,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING PROOF EXHIBIT: $3,150 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTAPESTRY FARMS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYCHILD: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUAD-CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLIV WELL CARES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEAM ON WHEELS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITY ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY BLUES SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORSES OF COURSE INC: $400 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds QUAD-CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIV WELL CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES 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.

Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Scott County Regional…Marie H Bechtel Chari…Rauch Family Foundati…Doris & Victor Day Fo…Hubbell-Waterman FndnThe Rock Island Commu…Moline FoundationUnited Way Quad CitiesHarold R Bechtel Char…Modern Woodmen of Ame…
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA66.3× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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