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McLaughlin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE QUAD CITIES | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $2,500 |
| EVERYCHILD | $2,500 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE OF THE QUAD CITIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 4% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SAST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +107%
- QCQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +70%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- THTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +451%
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 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 tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad Cities Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Putnam Museum and Science Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 26 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 ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES CHAMBER FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Vera French Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIVER ACTION 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: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Modern Woodmen of America · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Moline Foundation · Churchill Family Charitable Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust
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 McLaughlin Family 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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