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Rohde Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$834kHuman Services$163kHealth$156kPhilanthropy$126kArts & Culture$113kYouth Development$82kEnvironment$64kAnimals$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIRKWOOD FOUNDATION$55,000
MT MERCY UNIVERSITY$22,000
CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY$12,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CEDAR RAPIDS$12,500
WAYPOINT$12,500
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER$7,500
COE COLLEGE$5,000
CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA$5,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
ORCHESTRA IOWA$5,000
HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC$3,500
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC$2,500
TANGER PLACE$2,500
MATTHEW 25$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $6k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $6k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $5k → 11%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 9%CATHERINE MCCAULY CENTER: $3k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $1k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $1k → 9%DEAFINITELY DOGS: $250 → 9%TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE: $8k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $3k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $3k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $3k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $3k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $3k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $4k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $4k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $4k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $3k → 9%WAYPOINT: $13k → 9%WAYPOINT: $8k → 9%WAYPOINT: $8k → 9%WAYPOINT: $8k → 9%WAYPOINT: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $4k → 9%WAYPOINT: $4k → 9%WAYPOINT: $4k → 9%WAYPOINT: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 37 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
9

Total granted

$1.6M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+56%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IC
    INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +56%
  • WS
    WAYPOINT SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +68%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • TW
    TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +19%
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +29%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Common Good Iowa

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.

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3
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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6
American Civil Liberties Union 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…

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7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
8
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
9
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

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.

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10
Iowa Institute for Cooperatives

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…

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11
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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12
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIRKWOOD FOUNDATION: $530,000 · OtherKIRKWOOD FOUNDATIONMT MERCY UNIVERSITY: $224,000 · OtherMT MERCY UNIVERSITYMERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherMERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $48,500 · OtherTHEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS: $40,000 · Other+21 more: $155,865 · Other+21 moreWAYPOINT SERVICES: $53,500 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SE…CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $47,000 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAG…CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCATHERINE M…MATTHEW 25: $13,900 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE ARE…TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesCOE COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $58,500 · EnvironmentORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $25,500 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $10,500 · Arts & CultureBRUCEMORE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $47,500 · Recreation & SportsCEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $19,000 · Animals+1 more: $225 · Animals
Other$1,143,365Human Services$155,150Education$100,250Environment$58,500Arts & Culture$54,500Recreation & Sports$47,500Animals$19,225

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $58,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $53,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $47,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $47,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $25,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $24,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $19,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $14,365 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHEW 25: $13,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION 2 INC: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE ACHIEVE: $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN IOWA HONOR FLIGHT: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Greater Cedar Rapids …The Hall-Perrine Foun…United Fire Group Fou…GreenState Credit Uni…United Way of East Ce…The McIntyre Foundati…Carleen and Eugene Gr…Mercy Medical CenterBryant Foundation IncESP International Cha…TrueNorth Legacy Foun…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI44.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rohde Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rohde Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rohde Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rohde Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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