· Private foundation
Robert V & Shirley V Dahl 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF CARLISLE PARKS | $6,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF ROCKIES | $1,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $1,500 |
| FOOD AT FIRST | $1,250 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,000 |
| WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $900 |
| CLIMATE GENERATION | $750 |
| BETHESDA LUTHERAN CHURCH | $650 |
| OSWIT LAND TRUST | $500 |
| YMCA OF METRO DENVER | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +288%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +75%
Feeding America5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- APASCENSION PARISH ALTAR PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $10k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +34%- COCHURCH OF THE SACRED HEARTone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
End hunger together.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
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…
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…
Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals From the Heartland Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 35 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 129 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARLISLE PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds IOWANS FOR LIFE INC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds Petfinder Foundation ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Burke Family Foundation · Leonard a Good Testamentary Trust · Krause Gentle Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Meredith Corporation 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 V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% 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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