· Private foundation
Rauch Family Foundation I Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER BEND FOODBANK | $3,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATES LEGAL SERVICES | $3,000 |
| THE THIRD PLACE | $2,350 |
| HEART OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| BETHANY FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES | $2,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAN | $2,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE OF NURSING | $2,000 |
| NEST CAFE | $1,500 |
| SBC MUSIC ARTS ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| SCHOOL HEALTH LINK | $1,500 |
| NAMI GREATER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | $1,495 |
| CLOCK INC | $1,300 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IA WESTERN I | $1,250 |
| NARRATIVES | $1,250 |
| SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER | $1,250 |
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 (FY21–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- PSPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +111%
- RIROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +31%
- HOHeart of Hope Ministries6× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +790%
Funded once
- QBQC Botanical Centerone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SESupplemental Emergency Assist. Prograone grant, 2017 · $5k
- RIROCK ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
The organization supports the general prosperity of rock island county, illinois and the surrounding illinois quad cities area.
Qci is a community of people living out our faith and values collectively to transform our society and bring about justice and human dignity locally and regionally. qci exists to empower ordinary people to effectively participate in the…
To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.
Together Making a Better Community is the hub for resources, professional services, programs and events for the community in the Quad Cities.
The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.
Transforming our region through the generosity of our donors
Cancer support community iowa & nw illinois uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To empower people with disabilities to believe in their own unique abilities and achieve their full potential by providing quality, innovative services that focus on advocacy, inclusion, independence, employment, meaningful community life…
Our mission is to create resilient communities and foster social equity through collaboration and service integration.
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.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Douglas Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 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. 59 of the 113 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 PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Heart of Hope Ministries ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CARE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY FARMS ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hauberg Civic Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEAM ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds FRESH FILMS ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE CLOCK INC NORRIS ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA 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: The Rock Island Community Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Moline Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · United Way Quad Cities · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Modern Woodmen of America · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust
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 Rauch Family Foundation I Inc 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.
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