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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
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$4.1MHuman Services$990kRecreation & Sports$930kPublic Benefit$836kYouth Development$741kArts & Culture$704kCommunity Improvement$518kHealth$437kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 50 grants below total $1,388,767, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,537,503 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $148,736 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $421k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$12,460
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT$26,000
BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$26,000
BIRDIES FOR CHARITY$24,330
PROSPERITY CONSULTING ALLIANCE LLC$18,125
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $11k → 10%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $43k → 15%ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $38k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $29k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $25k → 15%MERCER COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $21k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $14k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $14k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $13k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $12k → 15%THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $11k → 15%ARC OF ROCK ISLAND COUNTY: $10k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $10k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $8k → 15%CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $8k → 15%CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $7k → 15%MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $6k → 15%ROCK ISLAND COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCA: $6k → 15%HAND IN HAND: $7k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $6k → 12%WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION: $36k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $27k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $26k → 15%WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION: $22k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $18k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND: $14k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $13k → 15%BETHANY'S FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $11k → 15%BETHANY'S FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 15%BETHANY'S FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $8k → 15%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 15%BETHANY'S FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $8k → 15%BETHANY'S FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $6k → 15%BETHANY'S FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $6k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $6k → 15%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 71 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
62

Total granted

$8.4M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

77%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • QC
    QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $729k · revenue +53%
  • AC
    AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $372k · revenue +27%
  • RB
    RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR
    8× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF EAST MOLINE
    one grant, 2022 · $831k
  • QM
    QUAD-CITY MUSIC GUILD
    one grant, 2022 · $289k · revenue +16% · 90% of their budget
  • EM
    EAST MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0% · 68% of their budget
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Common Good Iowa

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.

—
3
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

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.

Human Services
4
Quad Cities Community Foundation

Transforming our region through the generosity of our donors

Philanthropy
5
Quad Cities Cultural & Educational Supporting Charitable Trust

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.

Philanthropy
6
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

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.

Health
7
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
8
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

—
9
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

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.

Health
10
Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Quad Cities Chamber Foundation - Iowa

The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.

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12
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families; 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.
04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 144 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
61/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MOLINE: $3,005,262 · OtherCITY OF MOLINECITY OF EAST MOLINE: $830,510 · OtherCITY OF EAST MOLINERIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $357,523 · OtherROOTED WI INC: $250,000 · Other+98 more: $3,013,291 · Other+98 moreQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $729,147 · PhilanthropyQUAD CITI…UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES: $188,755 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+2 more: $38,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $156,507 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO: $104,750 · Human ServicesWILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION: $97,291 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $76,100 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $59,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FARMS: $29,500 · Human ServicesMERCER COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 · Human Services+8 more: $75,350 · Human ServicesAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $372,250 · EducationWestern Illinois University Foundation: $110,000 · EducationSTEAM ON WHEELS: $26,125 · EducationSPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $25,500 · EducationST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $314,022 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $209,000 · InternationalQUAD-CITY MUSIC GUILD: $289,422 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $58,130 · Arts & CultureBALLET QUAD CITIES: $51,000 · Arts & CultureGENESIUS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $37,900 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $72,688 · Arts & CultureMOLINE FOUNDATION: $170,425 · Community ImprovementRENEW MOLINE INC: $129,119 · Community ImprovementQUAD CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $63,500 · Community ImprovementMERCADO ON 5TH INC: $54,000 · Community ImprovementMOLINE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $22,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,456,586Philanthropy$955,902Human Services$623,498Education$558,875International$523,022Arts & Culture$509,140Community Improvement$439,044

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $729,147 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $372,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $357,523 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $314,022 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetQUAD-CITY MUSIC GUILD: $289,422 over 1y, 90% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $209,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY QUAD CITIES: $188,755 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMOLINE FOUNDATION: $170,425 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $156,507 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC: $134,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRENEW MOLINE INC: $129,119 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO: $104,750 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $101,830 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEAST MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetWILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATION: $97,291 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $94,200 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $84,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $78,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC: $77,655 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $76,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBEIT SHALOM - JEWISH COMMUNITY: $75,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCommunity Health Care Inc: $68,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CENTER INC: $64,700 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetQUAD CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $63,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $59,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $58,130 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMERCADO ON 5TH INC: $54,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetQUAD CITIES LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: $53,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTRANSITIONS NFP: $52,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $51,810 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET QUAD CITIES: $51,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $41,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER HENRY COUNTY: $41,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC: $40,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGENESIUS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $37,900 over 4y, 16% of budgetEVERYCHILD: $35,625 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC: $29,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTAPESTRY FARMS: $29,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetQUAD CITIES CHAMBER FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS: $28,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTEAM ON WHEELS: $26,125 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE: $25,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $25,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCES: $25,450 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFriends Of Moline Public Library Foundation: $25,400 over 2y, 11% 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 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 ↗

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.

Quad Cities Community FoundationIA122.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Moline Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 144 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 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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