· Private foundation
McCullough Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $65,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE LAKE | $31,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WEECYCLE | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +57%
- WWEECYCLE9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue ×13
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- MCMAHASKA COUNTY YMCAone grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue -81%
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundationone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- DODIOCESE OF DES MOINESone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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…
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.
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.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
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.
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 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 MAHASKA COUNTY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Greater Birmingham Ministries ↗
- Who funds BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MAHASKA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCullough Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCullough Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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