· Private foundation
Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation
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 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 $10k14 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANTS LESS THAN 1000 | $40,060 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $21,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LAWLER IRISH FEST | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HAWKEYE CC-KYRA BUTIKOFER | $1,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CZECH DAYS | $1,000 |
| CHICKASAW EVENT CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HAWKEYE CC-ANA VENTURA | $1,000 |
| HARPERS FERRY AREA HERITAGE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY20–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 9 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; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMERCY MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $101k · revenue +59%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +4%
- LILAWLER IRISH FEST INC6× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +464%
Funded once
- FFAVAone grant, 2019 · $75k
- MMERCYONEone grant, 2019 · $50k
- JCJERICO CONSTR HARPERS'S FERRY DOCKone grant, 2024 · $35k
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.
To provide an annual agricultural fair for the youth of marshall county
To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.
The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 203 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LAWLER IRISH FEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHICKASAW ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
- Who funds Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers ↗
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: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Thomson Charitable Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · 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 Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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