· Public charity
Moline Foundation
To receive charitable gifts and provide grants to other organizations to support civic, educational, health and human services, and cultural activities for the citizens of eastern iowa and western illinois.
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.
The 50 grants below total $1,388,767 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,537,503 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $148,736 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $625k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $421k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOTED WI INC | $250,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF QUAD CITIES | $200,500 |
| VISIT MERCO | $170,425 |
| WVIK QUAD CITIES NPR | $50,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP MANOR | $42,580 |
| SAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $39,000 |
| ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA | $38,000 |
| WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION | $35,767 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY CEN | $33,000 |
| LIVING LANDS & WATERS | $28,500 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD BANK | $27,949 |
| BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES | $26,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT | $26,000 |
| BIRDIES FOR CHARITY | $24,330 |
| PROSPERITY CONSULTING ALLIANCE LLC | $18,125 |
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 (FY17–25, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 11 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k 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
- QCQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $729k · revenue +53%
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE4× · 2020–2025 · $372k · revenue +27%
- RBRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR8× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- COCITY OF EAST MOLINEone grant, 2022 · $831k
- QMQUAD-CITY MUSIC GUILDone grant, 2022 · $289k · revenue +16% · 90% of their budget
- EMEAST MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0% · 68% of their budget
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
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.
Transforming our region through the generosity of our donors
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The mission of rock island economic growth corporation is to renovate and build new single family or multi-family housing in the midwest region; to foster low-income housing that: enhances the overall image and economic vitality of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is William Butterworth Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 144 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 QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD-CITY MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds MOLINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW MOLINE INC ↗
- Who funds Western Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds SAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BEIT SHALOM - JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MERCADO ON 5TH INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS NFP ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES 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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Modern Woodmen of America · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust
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 Moline 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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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