· Private foundation
Olberg Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART | $3,100 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,750 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,260 |
| KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER | $1,200 |
| HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY ASSOCI | $650 |
| TREES FOREVER | $500 |
| INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER | $500 |
| LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $500 |
| BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WAYPOINT SERVICES | $500 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $500 |
| MADEIRA SCHOOL FUND | $500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +41% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575 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
- ICINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +56%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +19%
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- F2FOUNDATION 2 INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -7%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $600 · revenue +98%- NPNATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $600
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 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 university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
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…
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To assist members in the development of their careers and to support lasting parks and recreation systems.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Rapids Parks Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST MEDIA ADDICTION ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Fire Group Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Linge Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Bryant Foundation Inc · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · The Accel Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Slappey Family 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 Olberg Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc — 16% of income from government
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.