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Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn at a glance

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Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2026still arriving
84
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.

Education$231kHealth$209kRecreation & Sports$131kHuman Services$112kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$94kYouth Development$76kCommunity Improvement$75kOther$0
02FY2026 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k82 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE$10,000
IOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION$10,000
GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORP$6,000
WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC$6,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$5,000
AASE HAUGEN SENIOR SERVICES$5,000
OPENING DOORS$5,000
JESUP HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
DUBUQUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$4,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION DES MOINES$3,000
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$3,000
CITY OF INDEPENDENCE$3,000
RECLIFF COMMUNITY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MIGHTY HERO HOMES$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 (FY19–26, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%THE CARING LINK: $600 → 11%JUST LIVE INC: $1k → 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%JUST LIVE INC: $500 → 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%JUST LIVE INC: $500 → 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $2k → 11%RED BASKET PROJECT: $1k → 11%AREA RESIDENTIAL CARE: $400 → 11%RIVER VALLEY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%RIVER VALLEY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $2k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $2k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $2k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%RED BASKET PROJECT: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $500 → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA YWCA: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
IA
CO
MO
VA
AL
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 97 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2026, 46 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
44

Total granted

$1.2M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

54%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    Crescent Community Health Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +92%
  • TF
    The Fountain of Youth Program
    7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +200%
  • WC
    WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $28k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • JA
    JESUP ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -29%
  • PC
    PEARL CITY BASEBALL BOOSTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HC
    HOWARD COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
2
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
3
Dubuque County Fair Association

Country fair activities, musical entertainment, stock races & concessions

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4
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque

The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.

Philanthropy
5
Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque
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6
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States

To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.

Philanthropy
7
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
8
Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary

To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.

Health
9
Dubuque County Early Childhood Inc

Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

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12
Dubuque Food Pantry

Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association; the most unlike its peers is Elgin Historical Society. 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

88 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. 88 of the 174 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/88
Grantees still filing
54/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE: $78,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DUBUQUEIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATIONHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $41,800 · OtherLUTHER MANOR: $35,000 · OtherGREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $34,000 · Other+129 more: $644,524 · Other+129 moreCrescent Community Health Center: $50,000 · HealthCrescent Co…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $20,667 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH…FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · HealthFINLEY HEAL…DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthDUBUQUE MER…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $9,500 · HealthMARCH OF DI…BETHANY HOME: $9,000 · HealthBETHANY HOM…American Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · HealthAmerican He…+4 more: $6,200 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $21,500 · EducationClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $21,000 · EducationRiverview Center Inc: $13,900 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationLUTHER COLLEGE: $8,750 · EducationJESUP ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $4,800 · EducationHillcrest Family Services Inc: $18,000 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $15,000 · Human ServicesRIVER VALLEY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y: $7,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,250 · Human ServicesStonehill Franciscan Services: $4,500 · Human Services+4 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Fountain of Youth Program: $39,100 · EmploymentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentTwo By Two Character Development: $17,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $28,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $1,100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$908,824Health$128,867Education$84,950Human Services$65,750Employment$39,100Youth Development$36,000Food & Nutrition$29,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCrescent Community Health Center: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program: $39,100 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $34,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOPENING DOORS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $22,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLORAS COLLEGE: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $20,667 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF DUBUQUE: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHillcrest Family Services Inc: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTwo By Two Character Development: $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRiverview Center Inc: $13,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTri-State Christian School Association: $13,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WALWORTH COUNTY: $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER VALLEY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY HOME: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $8,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $7,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DUBUQUE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJESUP ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetStonehill Franciscan Services: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JO DAVIESS COUNTY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRUN 4 TROOPS: $3,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDUBUQUE JAYCEES: $3,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCreative Adventure Lab Inc: $2,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWAVERLY VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 IOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds The Fountain of Youth Program ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
  • Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Two By Two Character Development ↗
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Riverview Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Tri-State Christian School Association ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WALWORTH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RIVER VALLEY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …James B & Melita a Mc…Heartland Charitable …Dubuque Racing Associ…Ay McDonald Charitabl…Alliant Energy Founda…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Falb Family Charitabl…Crescent Electric Cha…The Klauer Foundation…The Butler Family Fou…Mathis Pfohl Foundati…
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA65.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Butler Family Foundation · Mathis Pfohl 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 Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    32report 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.

    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 174 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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