· Private foundation
Risdal Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINTS PETER PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $27,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS | $5,000 |
| ST CECILIA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,000 |
| IOWA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500 |
| UNBOUND | $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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +1%- GEGILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +67%
- MGMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +276%
Funded once
Mercy Ships Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +87%
FOOD FOR THE POOR INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -56%- SAST AMBROSE CATHEDRALone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
See schedule o.as an operating charity, the abim foundation develops and implements projects in support of our mission to advance the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
In collaboration with its member boards, abms creates standards for board certification for physicians and medical specialists. specifically, for initial and continuing certification. abms and its member boards establish rigorous standards…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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 Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Risdal Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Risdal Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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