· Private foundation
Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque
Its FY2025 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
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 $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH SERVICES IOWA CORP (DBA DUBUQUE MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER) | $54,286 |
| CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - PLATTEVILLE | $25,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CROCUS FOUNDATION | $7,400 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUBUQUE | $5,000 |
| DURIDE | $5,000 |
| EAST DUBUQUE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,564 |
| DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| NAMI DUBUQUE | $2,500 |
| DUBUQUE LIONS CLUB | $2,000 |
| STEEPLE SQUARE BUSINESS LEGACY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| OUTRUN THE RAYS INC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- CCCrescent Community Health Center6× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +136%
- SBStonehill Benevolent Foundation4× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +1%
- HAHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- DIDUBUQUE INITIATIVESone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -42%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUEone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -94%
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.
We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.dubuque mercy health foundation is a member of mercy health…
Providing compassionate care for persons with serious and terminal illness and their loved ones.
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We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.dyersville health foundation is a member of mercy health…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crescent Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Outrun the Rays Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 30 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 Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Stonehill Benevolent Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DURIDE ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NAMI DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OUTRUN THE RAYS 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Sirk Family Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque 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.