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Obrien Fitzpatrick 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA | $5,000 |
| TRHS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS | $4,000 |
| BRENTON ARBORETUM | $2,000 |
| GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| SALISBURY HOUSE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your 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.
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 +154% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
DRAKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +15%- DMDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +395%
- BABRENTON ARBORETUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CICHILDSERVE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
- GDGREATER DSM PUBLIC ART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- YYSSone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
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.
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.
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The des moines water works park foundation is dedicated to developing and executing the master plan created for water works park. the plan turns the park into a national model incorporating recreation, education and conservation within the…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The greater des moines public art foundation places art in public spaces through public and private collaborations.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden and the most unlike its peers is Brenton Arboretum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds BRENTON ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Bookey Family Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundation · Brenton Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Windsor Charitable Foundation · Burnett Family Foundation · The Levitt 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 Obrien Fitzpatrick 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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