· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k82 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE | $10,000 |
| GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORP | $6,000 |
| WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC | $6,000 |
| OPENING DOORS | $5,000 |
| JESUP HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| AASE HAUGEN SENIOR SERVICES | $5,000 |
| DUBUQUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $4,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION DES MOINES | $3,000 |
| CITY OF INDEPENDENCE | $3,000 |
| IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ROBERT L MOORE DISCIPLE HOUSE | $2,500 |
| RECLIFF COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
| MIGHTY HERO HOMES | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- CCCrescent Community Health Center5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +92%
- TFThe Fountain of Youth Program7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +200%
- WCWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC7× · 2020–2026 · $28k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- JAJESUP ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -29%
- PCPEARL CITY BASEBALL BOOSTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HCHOWARD COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $4k
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 Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
Country fair activities, musical entertainment, stock races & concessions
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.
To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.
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…
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 29 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 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 Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA 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 UNITED WAY OF WALWORTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn 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.