· Private foundation
Maurice Paul and Glennys Brimmer Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of MAURICE PAUL AND GLENNYS BRIMMER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE | $50,000 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS POLICE PROTECTIVE CHARITY | $50,000 |
| I KNOW JACK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 | $50,000 |
| ST LUKES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEWBO CITY MARKET | $50,000 |
| GREEN SQUARE MEALS | $50,000 |
| HELPING HANDS | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| MERCY FAMILY CAREGIVER | $25,000 |
| MISSION OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| IOWA GIVING CREW | $20,000 |
| SATURDAY EVENING MEALS PROGRAM (SEMP) | $10,000 |
| FISCHER FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- GSGreen Square Meals Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +203% · 34% of their budget
- M2MATTHEW 253× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +40%
- IKI KNOW JACK FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +125% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- WSWAYPOINT SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +21%
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS PARKINSONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- HHHIS HANDSone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
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.
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is I Know Jack Foundation Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 Green Square Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds Mission of Hope ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds I KNOW JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Metro Catholic Outreach ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
- Who funds IOWA GIVING CREW ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds NEWBO CITY MARKET ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · David Neuhaus Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · The Accel Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation
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 Maurice Paul and Glennys Brimmer 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.
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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