· Private foundation
Susan J Glazer Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $401k
- $250k+1 grant · $693k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIV OF OKLA FDN | $692,754 |
| ELLIPSIS | $100,000 |
| DRAKE UNIV | $50,500 |
| SOONER CLUB OU FDN | $50,000 |
| BLANK CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ANAWIM | $50,000 |
| VARIETY CLUB | $50,000 |
| BRAVO | $25,000 |
| CHILD SERVE FDN | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| DM PLAYHOUSE | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSN | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
DRAKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +11%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA5× · 2018–2022 · $273k · revenue +21%
- VTVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA3× · 2018–2021 · $104k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- F8FORM 8283one grant, 2022 · $400k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IAone grant, 2023 · $110k
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -28%
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 university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
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…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childserve Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 68 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST CORPORATION ↗
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: Meredith Corporation Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · The Denny and Candy Elwell Foundation · Ita Group 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 Susan J Glazer Foundation 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.