· Private foundation
Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| St Edwards Church | $20,000 |
| OneIowa | $20,000 |
| Friends of Cedar Valley Sports & Entertainment Commission | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%- GMGrout Museum Districtone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NBNAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -32%
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 46 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
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 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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN COMMUNITY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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