· Private foundation
Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Memorial Foundation of Allen Hospital | $25,000 |
| Cedar Valley Catholic Schools | $25,000 |
| OneIowa | $20,000 |
| Friends of Cedar Valley Sports & Entertainment Commission | $20,000 |
| St Edwards Church | $20,000 |
| MercyOne Foundation | $15,000 |
| Cedar Fallls Community Theater | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Waterloo Community Playhouse | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| University of Iowa Foundation | $5,000 |
| NAMI of Black Hawk County | $5,000 |
| Friends of NCC Charitable Trust | $5,000 |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $5,000 |
| House of Hope | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LWLITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +514%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +4%
- CFCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +45%
Funded once
DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +111%- CVCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
- GMGrout Museum Districtone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Cherishing life's journey through an extraordinary commitment to compassion, comfort and holistic care.
Child day care center
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Foundation of Allen Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Little Warrior Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ALLEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NCC CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GROUT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Duroe Family Foundation · Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · The Braun Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Veridian Credit Union · Trustage Foundation 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 Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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