· Private foundation
Northeast Iowa Charitable 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $756k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oelwein Event Corporation | $200,000 |
| MercyOne Foundation | $150,000 |
| Oelwein Community School District | $144,620 |
| OELWEIN DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $110,000 |
| WILLIAMS CENTER INC | $76,863 |
| Oelwein Youth Sports Foundation | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| HERBERT HOOVER LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| Plentiful Pantry | $15,000 |
| IOWA AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| OELWEIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +23% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMercy Hospital Foundation3× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +93%
- WCWilliams Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $382k · revenue +65% · 86% of their budget
- VCVOLUNTEER CENTER OF CEDAR VALLEY3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- OCOELWEIN COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $119k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $76k
- HCHUB CITY HERITAGE CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $17k
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.
The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
To promote the health and wellness of persons over the age of fifty.
The promotion of altoona, ia
The foundation constructed a health clinic in oelwein, ia to provide health services to the residents of the community. the building is leased to buchanan county health care
Providing day care services to mitchell county, iowa, and the surrounding area. 50 to 70 children are serviced on a daily basis.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 39 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 Oelwein Event Corporation ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Williams Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Fontana Park Inc ↗
- Who funds Oelwein Area United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Oelwein Chamber and Area Development 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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