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Quad Cities Cultural & Educational Supporting Charitable Trust

The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$347k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$7.1MEnvironment$1.3MOther$454k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $579k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$222,017
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$347,024
QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER$315,305
FIGGE ART MUSEUM$269,680
QUAD CITY ARTS$254,199
PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & NATURAL SCIENCE$222,017
COMMON CHORD$192,686
RIVERCENTER & ADLER THEATRE$164,500
BALLET QUAD CITIES$13,200
BREATH OF ENCOURAGEMENT$7,250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 29% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL: $403k → 12%QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER: $315k → 15%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & NATURAL SCIENCE: $352k → 12%QUAD CITY ARTS: $291k → 15%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & NATURAL SCIENCE: $319k → 12%QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER: $258k → 15%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & NATURAL SCIENCE: $227k → 12%QUAD CITY ARTS: $254k → 15%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & NATURAL SCIENCE: $222k → 12%QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FDN: $252k → 15%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $347k → 12%QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER: $246k → 15%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $335k → 12%QUAD CITY ARTS: $226k → 15%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $318k → 12%QUAD CITY ARTS: $214k → 15%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $316k → 12%QUAD CITY ARTS: $213k → 15%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY: $313k → 12%QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER: $193k → 15%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $290k → 12%BALLET QUAD CITIES: $50k → 15%RIVER MUSIC EXPERIENCE: $290k → 12%BALLET QUAD CITIES: $30k → 15%RIVER MUSIC EXPERIENCE: $287k → 12%BALLET QUAD CITIES: $20k → 15%COMMON CHORD: $274k → 12%BALLET QUAD CITIES: $13k → 15%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $270k → 12%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY: $263k → 12%COMMON CHORD: $245k → 12%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $239k → 12%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY: $235k → 12%COMMON CHORD: $193k → 12%RIVERCENTER & ADLER THEATRE: $165k → 12%RIVERCENTER & ADLER THEATRE: $110k → 12%ADLER THEATRE: $100k → 12%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 12%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 12%RIVERCENTER & ADLER THEATRE: $27k → 12%PARENT BOOSTERS USA INC: $30k → 12%BREATH OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $15k → 12%BREATH OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.7M · 9 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$8.7M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+164%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • FA
    FIGGE ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +56%
  • PM
    PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
  • QC
    QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AT
    ADLER THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • DC
    Davenport Central Vocal Boosters Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +164% · 38% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Vanguard Concerts
2
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…

Community Improvement
3
Quad-City Music Guild

Musical theater presentations for the general public, scholarships and training grants

Arts & Culture
4
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
5
Quad City Symphony Trust

To further the tax exempt charitable works of the quad city symphony orchestra association.

Arts & Culture
6
Dubuque Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
8
Queen City Chamber Opera Dba Queen City Opera

Classical music performances in Cincinnati.

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Harp Quartet
10
Quincy Art Center

To provide opportunities for growth and appreciation of the visual fine arts through exhibitions and programs in our community.

Arts & Culture
11
Chamber Opera of Chicago
12
Queens Council On the Arts Inc

Promotion of arts and arts organizations in queens, ny

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad City Arts Inc 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.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIGGE ART MUSEUM — $1,529,150 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART MUSEUMPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER — $1,523,707 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTERQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $1,477,145 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONCOMMON CHORD — $1,287,757 · Arts & CultureCOMMON CHORDQUAD CITY ARTS INC — $1,197,639 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY ARTS INC+1 more — $113,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,263,004 · EnvironmentQUAD CITY BOTANI…THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY — $301,500 · OtherADLER THEATRE — $100,000 · OtherDavenport Central Vocal Boosters Inc — $30,000 · OtherBREATH OF ENCOURAGEMENT — $22,250 · Other
Arts & Culture$7,128,398Environment$1,263,004Other$453,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $1,529,150 over 5y, 11% of budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER — $1,523,707 over 5y, 21% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $1,477,145 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMMON CHORD — $1,287,757 over 5y, 27% of budgetQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,263,004 over 5y, 23% of budgetQUAD CITY ARTS INC — $1,197,639 over 5y, 22% of budgetBALLET QUAD CITIES — $113,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetDavenport Central Vocal Boosters Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 38% of budget
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 FIGGE ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
  • Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COMMON CHORD
  • Who funds QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC
  • Who funds BALLET QUAD CITIES
  • Who funds Davenport Central Vocal Boosters 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.

Scott County Regional AuthorityIA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Modern Woodmen of America · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Moline Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Quad Cities Cultural & Educational Supporting 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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