· Private foundation
Robert E Yager 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNI FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| NSTA | $20,000 |
| IOWA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| WORKHOUSE ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CHRIS ATWOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUMMITT CHURCH INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| OXFORD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| OPERATION VETERAN SUCCESS | $1,000 |
| IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $1,000 |
| ROADS TO RECOVERY INC | $1,000 |
| MCSHIN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- TITHE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +58%
- WAWorkhouse Arts Foundation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +44%
- TMTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- NSNATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +28%
- SSCANone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SFST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +6%
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.
Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Elijah family homes fosters hope, dignity, and self-sufficiency through stable housing and support services for families seeking recovery.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
Hartford area habitat for humanity is dedicated to strengthening communities by empowering low-income families to change their lives and the lives of future generations through homeownership opportunities. this is accomplished by working…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chris Atwood Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Veteran Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 THE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIS ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds THE MCSHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROADS TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD CREAMERY THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Oxford House Inc ↗
- Who funds SAARA OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION VETERAN SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Robert E Yager 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oxford House Inc — 8% 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.