· Private foundation
Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| CITY OF WATERLOO LEISURE SERVICES | $100,000 |
| ALLEN COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| HW GROUT TRUST | $50,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| YWCA | $50,000 |
| GRIN AND GROW | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| WATERLOOCEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $10,000 |
| JOB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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