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Rohde Family Charitable 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIRKWOOD FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| MT MERCY UNIVERSITY | $22,000 |
| WAYPOINT | $12,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CEDAR RAPIDS | $12,500 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,500 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER | $7,500 |
| ORCHESTRA IOWA | $5,000 |
| COE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA | $5,000 |
| HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC | $3,500 |
| WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC | $2,500 |
| TANGER PLACE | $2,500 |
| THEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS | $2,500 |
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, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ICINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +56%
- WSWAYPOINT SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +68%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TWTOGETHER WE ACHIEVEone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +19%
- TLTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +29%
- UWUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWAone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -35%
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.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
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.
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
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…
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 independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
The objective, powers, and purposes of this association shall be to associate the members thereof together into a society for the purpose of promoting the interests and welfare of iowa cooperatives by any appropriate means but specifically…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Coe College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 10% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 47 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 INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
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 · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · United Way of East Central Iowa · The McIntyre Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · Bryant Foundation Inc · ESP International Charitable Foundation · TrueNorth Legacy 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 Rohde Family Charitable 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.
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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