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Miles Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$57kFood & Nutrition$54kArts & Culture$46kHealth$39kScience & Tech$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,159
Median grant
1
States reached
$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,159
FOOD BANK OF IOWA$3,159
INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO$3,159
ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD$3,159
SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSN$3,159
OTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,159
HOSPICE$3,159
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $4k → 10%SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSN: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $4k → 16%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $3k → 10%SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSN: $3k → 11%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $3k → 10%SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSN: $3k → 11%WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 16%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $3k → 10%SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSN: $3k → 11%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $4k → 16%OTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%TENCO FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 16%TENCO FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 16%TENCO FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 16%TENCO FOUND INC: $4k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%OTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 16%WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%HOSPICE: $3k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $3k → 16%OTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 16%WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%HOSPICE: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $3k → 16%FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA INC: $3k → 16%OTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 16%WAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $3k → 16%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 11 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$190k
$11k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • EL
    ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +204%
  • SI
    SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +162%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TF
    TENCO FOUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • SI
    SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • SI
    SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Iowa River Hospice Inc

Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.

Human Services
2
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

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3
Food Bank of Siouxland Inc

Leading siouxland in the fight against hunger

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4
Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank

To collect and purchase food and basic necessities for distribution to disadvantaged people in the north iowa area. individuals served - 25,399

Food & Nutrition
5
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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6
Iowa City Hospice Inc

To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

Human Services
7
Hospice of Dubuque

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

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8
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
9
Dubuque Food Pantry

Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area

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10
Iowa Bird Rehabilitation

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…

Animals
11
Iowa Grocers Education Foundation

Provide educational scholarships

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12
Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc

Providing meals to the hungry of north iowa.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Southern Iowa; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $28,467 · OtherECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARDOTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $26,567 · OtherOTTUMWA PUBLIC LIBRARYINDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $23,762 · OtherINDIAN HILLS COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATIONHOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTY: $22,162 · OtherHOSPICE OF WAPELLO COUNTYSOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $19,296 · OtherSOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAFOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA: $11,902 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWATENCO FOUNDATION INC: $10,871 · OtherTENCO FOUNDATION INCHOSPICE: $6,305 · Other+5 more: $10,635 · Other+5 moreWAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $21,467 · Arts & CultureWAPELLO COUN…FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $13,296 · Food & NutritionINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,305 · Education
Other$159,967Arts & Culture$21,467Food & Nutrition$13,296Education$6,305

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $28,467 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetWAPELLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $21,467 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $19,296 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $13,296 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA: $11,902 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTENCO FOUNDATION INC: $10,871 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,305 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE: $6,305 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Miles Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miles Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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