· Private foundation
Schoen Family Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marquette University | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,900 |
| Dubuque Regional Humane Society | $10,000 |
| Sisters of St Francis Foundation | $10,000 |
| Finley Health Foundation | $10,000 |
| Dubuque Museum of Art | $10,000 |
| Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools | $8,250 |
| Dubuque Dream Center | $8,000 |
| St Mark Youth Enrichment | $8,000 |
| Hills and Dales | $7,500 |
| DuRide | $6,500 |
| Four Mounds Foundation | $6,000 |
| Lone Tree Arts Center Fund | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
54 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 25 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- FFFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +5%
- MUMarquette University4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +14%
- DDDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUEone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -97%
- SWSister Water Proj-Sisters of St Fraone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +52%
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.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
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.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feast of Crispian. 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 29 years old; the field is 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 131 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 Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DURIDE ↗
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEART SCIENCE LTD ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Two By Two Character Development ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds BRAIN CENTER OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds COVEY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Green Bay Packers Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Heartland Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc
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 Schoen Family 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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