· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Buena Vista Co Historical Society | $7,500 |
| Friends of Storm Lake Public Library | $7,500 |
| Plains Area Mental Health | $5,000 |
| Willamette Partnership | $5,000 |
| Island Shakespeare Festival | $5,000 |
| Old Mill Center for Children and Families | $5,000 |
| Green Belt Land Trust | $5,000 |
| Ida Grove Kiwanis Foundation | $4,500 |
| United Methodist Church | $3,500 |
| Storm Lake Police Dept | $2,500 |
| Storm Lake Music Boosters | $2,500 |
| Buena Vista Co Sheriff Dept | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- ITImagine the Possibilitiesgraduated4× · 2020–2024 · $250 · revenue +67%
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 Easter Seals Washington ↗
- Who funds BUENA VISTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBELT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PLAINS AREA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER I ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- 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 ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization RAD Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RAD Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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