· Private foundation
Molony Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PRESENTATION LANTERN | $10,000 |
| LATINO EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| RESEARCH FOR THE KIDS | $10,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS PASTORATE | $9,167 |
| CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD | $5,200 |
| MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY | $5,000 |
| CENTRALLY ROOTED MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE MISSISSIPPI ABBEY | $3,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SSST STEPHENS FOODBANKone grant, 2018 · $10k
- DDDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
- VIVARIOUS INDIVIDUALS OF THE WESTERN DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 88 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 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 ST STEPHENS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds BERNARD RESCUE UNIT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Molony Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Molony Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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