· Private foundation
Molony Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESOURCES UNITE | $37,720 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,919 |
| RESEARCH FOR THE KIDS | $10,000 |
| PRESENTATION LANTERN | $10,000 |
| LATINO EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS PASTORATE | $9,167 |
| CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD | $5,200 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA | $5,000 |
| MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC | $5,000 |
| CENTRALLY ROOTED MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE MISSISSIPPI ABBEY | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- RUResources Unite7× · 2019–2025 · $149k · revenue +2%
- PLPRESENTATION LANTERN3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +149%
- MCMAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC3× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- DDDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
- SSST STEPHENS FOODBANKone grant, 2018 · $10k
- VIVARIOUS INDIVIDUALS OF THE WESTERN DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
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…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To improve member newspapers
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Pbs Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Research for the Kids. 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 30 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 88 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 Resources Unite ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOR THE KIDS ↗
- Who funds PRESENTATION LANTERN ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRALLY ROOTED MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHENS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds BERNARD RESCUE UNIT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · Resources Unite · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Henry Family Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation
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 Molony 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.
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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