· Private foundation
Miles Charitable Trust
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $3,159 |
| WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,159 |
| ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD | $3,159 |
| SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSN | $3,159 |
| OTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,159 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $3,159 |
| HOSPICE | $3,159 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ELECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +204%
- SISOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +162%
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TFTENCO FOUND INCone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SISOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SISOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
Leading siouxland in the fight against hunger
To collect and purchase food and basic necessities for distribution to disadvantaged people in the north iowa area. individuals served - 25,399
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Providing compassionate care for persons with serious and terminal illness and their loved ones.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
Provide educational scholarships
Providing meals to the hungry of north iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Southern Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Ecumenical Lords Cupboard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds TENCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Miles Charitable Trust 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.