· Private foundation
McLaughlin 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 $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FIRST TEE QUAD CITIES | $5,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $2,500 |
| EVERYCHILD | $2,500 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE OF THE QUAD CITIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 4% of its 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 +70% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 26 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McLaughlin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McLaughlin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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