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Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
125
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE 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.

02FY2025 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $173k
  • $10k–50k87 grants · $2.0M
$16,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANSFORMATIONS BY CEDAR VALLEY ANGELS$35,000
SUCCESSLINK INC$35,000
CEDAR VALLEY PRESCHOOL & CHILDCARE CENTER$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
UNI FOUNDATION$33,000
CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY$30,000
RIYO REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT & YOUTH ORGANIZATION$30,000
SALVATION ARMY$30,000
YWCA OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY$30,000
WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
FRIENDS OF NATIONAL CATTLE CONGRESS$30,000
DUNKERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$30,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEV DBA HOUSE OF HOPE$30,000
WAYPOINT SERVICES$30,000
GROUT MUSEUM INC$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC: $20k → 8%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $30k → 9%LITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 8%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $30k → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF IOWA: $10k → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF IOWA: $10k → 9%LITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 17%WAVERLY CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL: $30k → 7%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $25k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $20k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $10k → 10%THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $25k → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $25k → 7%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $30k → 17%THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $20k → 7%WAVERLY CHILDCARE & PRESCHOOL: $20k → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $15k → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $15k → 7%THE LARABEE CENTER INC: $15k → 7%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $30k → 17%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 17%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $22k → 17%PGC OUTREACHDBA CV THRIFT & OUTREACH: $20k → 17%SOCIAL ACTION INC: $19k → 17%AMANI COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 17%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $30k → 17%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $30k → 17%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $30k → 17%AMANI COMMUNITY SERVICES: $22k → 17%AMANI COMMUNITY SERVICES: $22k → 17%COMMUNITY UNITED CHILDCARE CENTER: $30k → 17%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $20k → 17%COMMUNITY UNITED CHILD CARE CENTER: $30k → 17%LITTLE IRON MOM: $25k → 17%LITTLE IRON MOM: $25k → 17%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $15k → 17%LITTLE IRON MOM: $14k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $35k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $30k → 17%SUCCESSLINK INC: $15k → 17%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 119 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

119 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
95

Total granted

$8.6M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+19%

Still filing today

59%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $563k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +20%
  • SI
    SUCCESSLINK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +119%
  • GM
    GROUT MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMM DEV DBA HOUSE OF HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $61k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FDN OF NE IA - B H COUNTY COVID-19 FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
2
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
3
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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4
Iowa Center for Children's Justice

ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.

Civil Rights
5
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
6
Common Good Iowa

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.

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7
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Community Action of Eastern Iowa

Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.

Community Improvement
10
Community Foundation for Western Iowa

The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.

Philanthropy
11
Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

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12
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is Waverly Public Library Founation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVulnerable Populations Supp…Iowa Industry Trade Associa…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts & Culture Or…Catholic Health SystemIowa Community OrganizationsIowa Heritage & ConservationHospital Health SystemsVeterans & Fraternal Organi…Regional Healthcare SystemsRegional Affordable Housing…School District FoundationsSenior Residential CareDomestic Violence & Sexual …Community Support ServicesYouth Development Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number9%10%<5yr6%16%5–10yr9%22%10–20yr6%19%20–35yr9%20%35–55yr62%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value9%4%<5yr6%15%5–10yr9%18%10–20yr6%26%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr62%15%55yr+

The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/140
the rest of the field
5%
569/11,372

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.

04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 250 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
71/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+149 more — $6,418,300 · Other+149 moreSUCCESSLINK INC — $260,000 · Human ServicesSUCCESSLINK I…CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesCEDAR VALLEY …JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $142,000 · Human ServicesJESSE COSBY N…THE LARRABEE CENTER INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesTHE LARRABEE …LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERV…AMANI COMMUNITY SERVICE — $74,000 · Human ServicesAMANI COMMUNI…LITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER — $70,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE KNIGHT…WORLD GRACE PROJECT — $64,200 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES — $60,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY UNITED CHILD CARE CENTERS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesWAVERLY CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL — $50,000 · Human Services+8 more — $130,500 · Human Services+8 moreGRIN & GROW LTD — $180,000 · EducationGRIN & GRO…HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN — $180,000 · EducationHAWKEYE CO…Riverview Center Inc — $115,000 · EducationRiverview …WATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $114,000 · EducationWATERLOO C…CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $105,000 · EducationCEDAR FALL…JOB FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationJOB FOUNDA…Waverly Public Library Founation — $55,000 · EducationWaverly Pu…SUMNER DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER INC — $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Education+3 more — $75,000 · Education+3 moreGROUT MUSEUM INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureYouth Art Team — $161,000 · Arts & CultureMARCHING AGAINST THE DARKNESS INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $82,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $49,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $137,500 · Youth DevelopmentALL IN MENTORING — $93,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRY PIE — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentINCLUSION CONNECTION INC — $52,000 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentWATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $223,500 · PhilanthropyCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $130,000 · PhilanthropyCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY — $49,000 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD HILLS INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $175,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $140,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$6,418,300Human Services$1,300,700Education$994,000Arts & Culture$707,000Youth Development$687,500Philanthropy$442,500Housing & Shelter$315,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY — $300,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetSUCCESSLINK INC — $260,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetWATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $223,500 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetGROUT MUSEUM INC — $200,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER — $195,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC — $195,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CEDAR VALLEY ANGELS — $190,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetGRIN & GROW LTD — $180,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN — $180,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $175,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS — $170,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetYWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY — $170,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY — $170,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetYouth Art Team — $161,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $152,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $145,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $142,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $140,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $137,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $126,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARCHING AGAINST THE DARKNESS INC — $120,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LARRABEE CENTER INC — $115,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetRiverview Center Inc — $115,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $114,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetJOB FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $95,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetALL IN MENTORING — $93,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBREMER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $90,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetMaroon & White Inc — $88,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetIowa Legal Aid — $87,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $82,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH END CULTURAL CENTER INC — $80,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetONE CITY UNITED — $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMANI COMMUNITY SERVICE — $74,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetLITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER — $70,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY — $65,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetWORLD GRACE PROJECT — $64,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS GROUP INC OF WAVERLY IA — $62,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF CEDAR VALLEY — $60,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY UNITED CHILD CARE CENTERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWaverly Public Library Founation — $55,000 over 2y, 11% of budget
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESSLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GROUT MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY CEDAR VALLEY ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds GRIN & GROW LTD ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN ↗
  • Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds YWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Youth Art Team ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds MARCHING AGAINST THE DARKNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE LARRABEE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Riverview Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL IN MENTORING ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds BREMER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Maroon & White Inc ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗

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.

Otto Schoitz Foundati…Lsb FoundationBlack Hawk County Gam…Cedar Valley United W…R J McElroy TrustVan G Miller Family C…The Gallagher Family …Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Duroe Family Foundati…GreenState Credit Uni…Trustage Foundation I…Pauline R Barrett Cha…
Otto Schoitz FoundationIA116.8× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Schoitz Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Cedar Valley United Way · R J McElroy Trust · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Duroe Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Trustage Foundation Inc · Pauline R Barrett Charitable 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 Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 250 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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