· Private foundation
Ohnward 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | $50,000 |
| SPRINGBROOK HISTROICAL GOLF FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $7,500 |
| INNOVATE 120 INC | $7,000 |
| DEWITT THEATER COMPANY | $6,000 |
| CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB | $5,000 |
| OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| PAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MAQUOKETA ARTS EXPERIENCE LTD | $2,500 |
| CAMP COURAGEOUS | $2,500 |
| BELL TOWER THEATER | $25 |
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 (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Ohnward Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +53%
- I1INNOVATE 120 INC3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +1%
- PBPAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION - CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +322%
Funded once
- MAMAQUOKETA AG LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
- JCJACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +10%
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 provide fine arts to dubuque county
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members
The mission of the fort madison chamber of commerce is to promote retail and commercial development as well as tourism in fort madison and the surrounding area.
The chamber will support and strengthen member success, which enhances the quality of life, economic well-being and opportunities in the community we serve.
This commission is established as a once-in-a-lifetime commemoration of 200 years of history, culture, and community of both the city of jackson and madison county, which will both celebrate bicentennial anniversaries respectively in 2022…
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…
The acquisition, preservation and educational display of objects relating to the history of eureka and humboldt county's heritage.
Promote the community's (that being marshalltown, iowa) economic development and the revitalization and historic preservation of the downtown.
Engage in, assist and contribute to the support of economical and industrial development of the city of graettinger, iowa, including the assistance, encouragement and preservation of existing businesses and industries
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACKSON CO CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds INNOVATE 120 INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBROOK HISTORICAL GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION - CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA ART EXPERIENCE LTD ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA BETTERMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAQUOKETA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
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 · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Allison Everett Pearson Foundation · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Flynn Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ohnward 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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