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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.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$587kEducation$154kPhilanthropy$141kHuman Services$65kCommunity Improvement$27kRecreation & Sports$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NAMI DUBUQUE$2,500
DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY$2,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STONEHILL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%DURIDE: $5k → 11%STONEHILL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%STONEHILL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%STONEHILL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$873k · 11 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$873k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+9%

Still filing today

36%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    Crescent Community Health Center
    6× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +136%
  • SB
    Stonehill Benevolent Foundation
    4× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +1%
  • HA
    HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • ML
    MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -94%
  • DI
    DUBUQUE INITIATIVES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -42%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque
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2
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
3
Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation

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…

Health
4
Hospice of Dubuque

Providing compassionate care for persons with serious and terminal illness and their loved ones.

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5
Dmacc Foundation

Receive donations for dmacc.

Education
6
Dyersville Health Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
7
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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8
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
9
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque

The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.

Philanthropy
10
Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center

To reduce morbidity, mortality, and costs associated with poisonings, through providing statewide 24-hour telephone management, consultation, poison prevention information, public and professional education and research for the people of…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
12
The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association

The visiting nurse association exists to promote and improve the health, wellness, and safety of individuals and communities through provision of comprehensive, home, and community based initiatives and services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crescent Community Health Center; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER: $287,142 · OtherMERCYONE MEDICAL CENTERMERCY HEALTH SERVICES IOWA CORP (DBA DUBUQUE MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER): $162,858 · OtherMERCY HEALTH SERVICES IOWA CORP (DBA DUBUQUE MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER)UNITED WAY: $125,000 · OtherUNITED WAYUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - PLATTEVILLE: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - PLATTEVILLENortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc: $45,000 · OtherNortheast Iowa Community College Foundation IncCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUBUQUE: $40,000 · Other+11 more: $69,188 · Other+11 moreCrescent Community Health Center: $61,000 · HealthCrescent Com…HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $27,500 · HealthHILLS AND DA…MERCY MEDICAL CENTER: $7,500 · HealthMERCY MEDICA…CROCUS FOUNDATION: $7,400 · HealthCROCUS FOUND…+2 more: $5,000 · HealthStonehill Benevolent Foundation: $37,350 · Human ServicesDURIDE: $5,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDUBUQUE INITIATIVES: $25,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationOUTRUN THE RAYS INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$804,188Health$108,400Human Services$42,350Recreation & Sports$25,000Community Improvement$25,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrescent Community Health Center: $61,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetStonehill Benevolent Foundation: $37,350 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDUBUQUE INITIATIVES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROCUS FOUNDATION: $7,400 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetDURIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CROCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DURIDE ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NAMI DUBUQUE ↗
  • Who funds OUTRUN THE RAYS 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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Community Foundation …James B & Melita a Mc…Heartland Charitable …Dubuque Racing Associ…Sirk Family FoundationFalb Family Charitabl…Ay McDonald Charitabl…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Crescent Electric Cha…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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