· 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 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.
| 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 |
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, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +145%
- 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
- 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 IOWA HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Petfinder 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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