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Richard McConnell Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard McConnell Family Foundation

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.

$263k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$481kHealth$234kRecreation & Sports$175kEducation$145kAnimals$115kReligion$71kHuman Services$14kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WE WILL COLLECTIVE$100,000
BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$70,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
ISU FOUNDATION$28,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$2,500
VARIETY CLUB$2,500
ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,500
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL$2,500
MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND$2,500
MAYO CLINIC$2,000
BLUE STAR MOTHERS OF IOWA$1,500
DCG EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN HACKNEY HORSE ASSN$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 8%CROSS OUTREACH: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IA
CO
KY
KS
TN
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

18%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IF
    ISU FOUNDATION -PERFORMANCE CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $475k
  • BC
    BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $206k
  • WW
    WE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNITYPOINT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IF
    ISU FOUNDATION - COMPANION ANIMAL F
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UD
    UNITYPOINT DM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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2
Iowa West Foundation
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3
Iowa Grocers Education Foundation

Provide educational scholarships

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4
Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
5
Iowa Giving Crew

Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.

Unclassified
6
Common Good Iowa

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.

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7
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Iowa Ffa Foundation Inc

The iowa ffa foundation cultivates partnerships supporting agricultural education and also seeks and provides financial support to assist agricultural education organizations in accomplisihing their missions.

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9
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
10
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation
Education
11
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
12
Iowa Gold Star Military Museum Board

The iowa gold star military museum's mission is to honor and depict the military experience of iowa citizens in all wars, homeland defense and iowa service. the museum's purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit materials that illustrate…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals From the Heartland Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dragon Scholarship Fund Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISU FOUNDATION -PERFORMANCE CENTER: $475,000 · OtherISU FOUNDATION -PERFORMANCE CENTERBLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $206,000 · OtherBLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITALWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $175,000 · OtherWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $111,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYISU FOUNDATION - EQUINE EXCELLENCE: $99,000 · OtherISU FOUNDATION - EQUINE EXCELLENCEIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PAUL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $70,500 · Other+11 more: $63,500 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,000 · Food & NutritionMAYO CLINIC: $2,000 · HealthRHYTHMS OF GRACE: $1,000 · HealthGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,000 · EnvironmentCROSS Outreach: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,380,000Education$44,000Food & Nutrition$3,500Health$3,000Environment$1,000Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $175,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE STAR MOTHERS OF IOWA 1: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAGON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRHYTHMS OF GRACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROSS Outreach: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 WE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE STAR MOTHERS OF IOWA 1 ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds DRAGON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RHYTHMS OF GRACE ↗
  • Who funds CROSS Outreach ↗

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.

The West Bancorporati…Prairie Meadows Race …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The West Bancorporation Foundation IncIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard McConnell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard McConnell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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