· Private foundation
Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of PAULINE R BARRETT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $575k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
Anchored by a single position — about 92% of reported assets are held in Regions.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $300,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $150,000 |
| CITY OF WATERLOO LEISURE SERVICES | $100,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| ALLEN COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| HW GROUT TRUST | $50,000 |
| YWCA | $50,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $25,000 |
| WATERLOOCEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| GRIN AND GROW | $25,000 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $10,000 |
| JOB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $555k) 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 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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK5× · 2019–2024 · $315k · revenue +44%
- GMGROUT MUSEUM INC4× · 2019–2022 · $225k · revenue +50%
- JFJOB FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SISUCCESSLINK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +119%
- COCENTER OF ATTENTIONone grant, 2021 · $12k
- LVLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +191%
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.
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…
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.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
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 community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hw Grout Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 ALLEN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GROUT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GRIN & GROW LTD ↗
- Who funds HW GROUT TRUST ↗
- Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds SUCCESSLINK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · Cedar Valley United Way · Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · R J McElroy Trust · The Braun Family Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer 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 Pauline R Barrett Charitable 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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