· Private foundation
Stuart D Nevermann 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,760 |
| LUTHER COLLEGE | $3,570 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $2,380 |
| NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE | $2,380 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $2,380 |
| NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE | $1,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $1,400 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE MASON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,400 |
| MASON CITY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,190 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA INC | $1,190 |
| MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA | $1,190 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $1,190 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $1,190 |
| MASON CITY FOUNDATION | $1,190 |
| AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $476 |
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 (FY22–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- LCLUTHER COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +1%
- LSLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +672%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TETHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE MASON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
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…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of iowa brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope by partnering with local habitat for humanity organizations to offer financial products, resource development,…
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.
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
To improve member newspapers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Services in Iowa Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Parkinson Disease Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE MASON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA 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: Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Stuart D Nevermann 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.