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Mulready Koehn Foundation at a glance

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Mulready Koehn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$276kPhilanthropy$79kHuman Services$35kInternational$25kCrime & Legal$25kCivil Rights$21kFood & Nutrition$20kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DES MOINES CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $10k → 17%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $10k → 17%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $10k → 17%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $5k → 17%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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 10 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$209k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
-7%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAYS OF IOWA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue -37%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +86%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue -36%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • AF
    AUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -29%
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
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.

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2
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment
3
United Way of East Central Iowa

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

Philanthropy
4
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
5
Greater Des Moines Partnership

None

Community Improvement
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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7
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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8
Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc

Upper des moines opportunity, inc. is dedicated to helping build stronger communities by addressing the effects of poverty on individuals and families.upper des moines opportunity, inc. will strengthen communities through: the promotion of…

Community Improvement
9
United Way of Delaware

The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.

Philanthropy
10
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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11
The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…

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12
West Des Moines Community Schools Foundation

To actively seek private funds (and to coordinate funds entrusted to its care) that ensure each student, regardless of his or her means, has the opportunity to reach his or her fullest potential.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Iowa; the most unlike its peers is Bowen Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization. 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DES MOINES CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $250,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES CHILDRENS MUSEUM+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $25,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRA…TOGETHER RISING: $21,000 · OtherTOGETHER RISINGLAURA'S GARDEN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherLAURA'S GARDEN FOUND…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…+8 more: $10,500 · Other+8 moreUNITED WAYS OF IOWA: $52,248 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAYS OF IO…DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PERFOR…YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $34,975 · Human ServicesEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalSELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · InternationalBOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $1,000 · EducationBROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$251,000Other$91,500Community Improvement$77,248Human Services$34,975Crime & Legal$25,000International$25,000Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDES MOINES CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF IOWA: $52,248 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $34,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mulready Koehn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mulready Koehn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 21 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-PF 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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