· Private foundation
RAD Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Caring Paws Rescue | $10,000 |
| Easter Seals Washington | $10,000 |
| Buena Vista Regional Medical Center | $8,588 |
| Friends of Storm Lake Public Library | $7,500 |
| Buena Vista Co Historical Society | $7,500 |
| Island Shakespeare Festival | $5,000 |
| Green Belt Land Trust | $5,000 |
| Plains Area Mental Health | $5,000 |
| Old Mill Center for Children and Families | $5,000 |
| Willamette Partnership | $5,000 |
| Ida Grove Kiwanis Foundation | $4,500 |
| United Methodist Church | $3,500 |
| Storm Lake Fire Dept | $2,500 |
| Buena Vista Co Sheriff Dept | $2,500 |
| Storm Lake Music Boosters | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- UMUnited Methodist Church8× · 2017–2025 · $63k
- BVBUENA VISTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $9k
- SLStorm Lake Music Boosters8× · 2017–2025 · $5k
Funded once
- IGIda Grove Economic Development (Afghan Refugee Program)3× · 2022–2024 · $5k
- HHHope Haven FBO Faith Hope & Charity4× · 2020–2024 · $500
- CFChrist for the Cityone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.
To advance through all resources the human and legal rights of individuals with disabilities. disability rights iowa provides free legal and non-legal advocacy assistance to persons with mental illness, disabilities and certain social…
Gulf Coast Center provides accessible efficient and quality services to support the independent and healthy living of those we serve. Every day our counselors therapists psychiatrists case workers peers support and administrative staff…
Provide clinical and educational service and support to individuals with autism and related disorders.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Washburn Center for Children diagnose and treats children in their social, emotional or behavioral development so that they grow into their full potential through therapeutic and healing services that includes their families in a setting…
A nonprofit organized for the purpose of providing evaluation, training, employment, education, placement and support services to individuals with emotional, physical and developmental disabilities, including people with severe…
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
Our mission at orchard place is "developing strong futures" for the children and youth of iowa. we do this by providing a continuum of services to our clients who deal with mental and behavioral health challenges.
We promote independence and choice and enhance the quality of life for people with developmental disabilities and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buena Vista County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 34 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 Easter Seals Washington ↗
- Who funds BUENA VISTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PLAINS AREA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER I ↗
- Who funds GREENBELT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds GENESIS DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Imagine the Possibilities ↗
- Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 RAD 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Willamette Partnership — 84% of income from government
- Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc — 46% of income from government
- Greenbelt Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Yale University — 9% 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.