· Private foundation
Roy J Carver Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k45 grants · $5.9M
- $250k+12 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $3,450,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $855,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUS | $850,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY | $750,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $595,957 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $425,000 |
| MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION | $400,000 |
| YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDAT | $275,000 |
| MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDAT | $200,000 |
| ADAIR COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM | $200,000 |
| LUTHER COLLEGE | $200,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 17 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE3× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +27%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +22%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TMTRINITY MUSCATINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- YOYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIESone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -17%
- BFBETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESone grant, 2024 · $500k
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.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The university of rio grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. our personalized,…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four Oaks Family and Children's Services and the most unlike its peers is Center for Active Seniors Inc. 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 218 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Moline Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Modern Woodmen of America · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn
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 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.
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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