How much did ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

installmechanismpark playgroundpurchase instrumentationacquire equipmentlightingexpand library

2020

spectrometerfield lightingendowment ivrivr genegene therapytherapy lablab budd

2021

expansionsimulation equipmentfacility improvementsbiologicalrenovationmedicinecell

2022

building improvementsgardenrenovationacquisition equipmentexpansionrenovate buildingtransitional

2023

building renovationphysicspurchase equipmentpurchase advancedimagingconstructiongenetics

2024

purchase advancedupdate libraryrenovate libraryvehiclescienceinstructionimprovements

2025

investigateimmune cellseffectivenessscienmolecularpurchase advancedmuscatine

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k29 grants · $560k
$50k–250k25 grants · $3.3M
$250k+12 grants · $8.2M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$354M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$2,750,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$1,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$558,755
BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$500,000
IOWA LAKESIDE LABORATORY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$493,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$377,400
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$348,015
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$305,486
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA$260,000
FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$250,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$245,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION$245,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION$245,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$92M · 60 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

60 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108

Total granted

$92M

$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+22%

Still filing today

62%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +164%
AC
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
2× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +4%
OP
ORCHARD PLACE
3× · 2018–2024 · $541k · revenue +5%

Funded once

TM
TRINITY MUSCATINE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
YO
YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +212%
TR
TWO RIVERS YMCAgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

North Central College

We are a diverse community of learners dedicated to preparing students to be curious, engaged, ethical, and purposeful citizens and leaders in local, national and global contexts.

Education

North Central University

To train and prepare leaders to serve their community, church, and world according to their vocation and gifts.

Education

MidAmerica Nazarene University

Transformative University nurturing Christlike community, academic excellence & passion to serve.

Education

Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and completed and extended by professional and practical experience. through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education

Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education

Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Creighton University

Creighton University, founded in 1878, is one of 28 Jesuit, Catholic universities in the U.S. Through its 9 colleges and schools, Creighton provides over 4,200 undergraduate and nearly 4,100 professional and graduate students an atmosphere…

Education

Midwestern University

Midwestern university dedicates the institution and its resources to the highest standards of academic excellence to meet the educational needs of the health care community.

Education

Drury University

Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning.

Education

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa City Va Medical Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Putnam Museum and Science Center. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 53 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 10% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/73

the rest of the field

724/15,523

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.

05the grantee network

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/71

Grantees still filing

51/71

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$86,793,348Education$14,410,260Arts & Culture$1,282,970Human Services$1,195,884Health$860,656Community Improvement$386,096International$250,000

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.

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.

Quad Cities Golf Classic CharitableIL59.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Moline Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Modern Woodmen of America · Iowa College Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust

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 organisation ROY J CARVER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 421310625 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Roy J Carver Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Roy J Carver Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Roy J Carver Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph

ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Roy J Carver Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph