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Roy J Carver Charitable Trust at a glance

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Roy J Carver Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
87
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3.5M
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.

Health$52MEducation$34MScience & Tech$28MHuman Services$4.9MArts & Culture$4.6MRecreation & Sports$3.7MAnimals$2.6MEnvironment$2.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $5.9M
  • $250k+12 grants · $10M
$120,773
Median grant
2
States reached
$241M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH SHELTER CARE OF NORTH CENTRAL: $21k → 13%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $200k → 11%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $250k → 15%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $300k → 17%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $50k → 12%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $7k → 12%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $50k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $28k → 15%ARROWHEAD RANCH: $200k → 15%FOUR OAKS: $300k → 9%FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER: $40k → 12%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $225k → 9%FLICKINGER LEARING CENTER: $25k → 12%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SER: $100k → 9%HAND IN HAND: $100k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $45k → 12%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122M · 66 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
131

Total granted

$122M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

71%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • AC
    AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +27%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TM
    TRINITY MUSCATINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • HP
    HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +63%
  • TR
    Two Rivers YMCA Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -6%
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
State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education
2
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.

—
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Columbia College

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

Education
5
Union College

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.

Education
6
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.

—
7
Illinois College

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…

Education
8
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
9
University of Rio Grande

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,…

Education
10
Point Park University

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…

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11
Furman University

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.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four Oaks Family and Children's Services; 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.
04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 217 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/89
Grantees still filing
58/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $56,822,867 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWAIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,215,304 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $9,931,185 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $9,126,062 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA: $7,579,047 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA+142 more: $21,895,653 · Other+142 moreAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $2,618,062 · EducationAUGUSTANA C…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,435,913 · EducationIOWA STATE …UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,454,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …LUTHER COLLEGE: $742,800 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $690,182 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $632,800 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGE: $621,100 · EducationSimpson College: $536,780 · EducationGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $490,275 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGE: $489,095 · Education+17 more: $3,666,545 · Education+17 moreDubuque County Historical Society: $1,200,000 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $500,000 · Arts & CultureLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $465,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $200,000 · Arts & CultureIOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET QUAD CITIES: $122,050 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $82,470 · Arts & CultureFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $875,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $200,000 · Human ServicesArrowhead Ranch Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HAND: $145,000 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $78,435 · Human ServicesFLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER: $65,000 · Human Services+2 more: $78,449 · Human ServicesORCHARD PLACE: $540,656 · HealthTANAGER PLACE: $400,000 · HealthIOWA CITY VA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $895,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREENFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $813,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$116,570,118Education$14,377,552Arts & Culture$2,949,520Human Services$1,941,884Health$1,135,656Philanthropy$970,000Food & Nutrition$813,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $2,618,062 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,435,913 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,454,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society: $1,200,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $895,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $875,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $813,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $742,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $690,182 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC: $662,969 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $632,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE: $621,100 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetORCHARD PLACE: $540,656 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSimpson College: $536,780 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION: $534,846 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $500,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $490,275 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $489,095 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLORAS COLLEGE: $487,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $465,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $438,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $392,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $334,800 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetBuena Vista University: $296,097 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE: $291,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $282,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $247,047 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $242,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY: $219,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetArrowhead Ranch Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetIOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $181,848 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $180,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEVERYCHILD: $175,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC: $175,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIowa Wesleyan University: $165,731 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $147,709 over 1y, 16% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $145,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $142,800 over 9y, 0.0% 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 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 HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
  • Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Scott County Regional…Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Moline FoundationAlliant Energy Founda…United Way Quad CitiesPella Rolscreen Found…GreenState Credit Uni…Modern Woodmen of Ame…The Rock Island Commu…Community Fdn of Grea…Hubbell-Waterman Fndn
Scott County Regional AuthorityIA58.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roy J Carver Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy J Carver Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Roy J Carver Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Roy J Carver Charitable Trust 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 217 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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