· Private foundation
The Bill & Phyllis Lane Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCY FOOD BOX | $8,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION SERVICES | $8,000 |
| MCC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MARSHALLTOWN AUDITORIUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RIVERSIDE CEMETERY | $5,000 |
| MARSHALLTOWN FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS - BINFORD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF COMPASSION | $4,000 |
| MARSHALLTOWN YOUTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| YSS OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $3,000 |
| MARSHALLTOWN YMCA-YWCA | $2,000 |
| IOWA RIVER HOSPICE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EFEMERGENCY FOOD BOX INC8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +175%
- HOHOUSE OF COMPASSION8× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +30%
- CACHILD ADOLESCENT AND PARENT SUPPORT IN3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FGFISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue ×20
- RRRAPHA REINSone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -65%
- MAMARSHALLTOWN ARTS & CIVIC CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
Hospice of marshall county, inc., is a not-for-profit agency that provides compassionate and professional end of life care respecting and honoring the choices of each individual patient. a comprehensive program addresses the physical,…
The mission of unitypoint health-marshalltown is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve through healing, caring and teaching.
Provide substance abuse recovery support/services
Care and support of special needs children and young adults
Provide food to people in need
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Exclusively for charitable purposes
To companion the end of life journey with skill and compassion.
Partnering for wellness: healthy mind, healthy body, healthy life.
To support human service agencies in marion county, iowa
Provide nutritious food to those in need, preserving their dignity and encourage self-reliance
Mental health counseling
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 EMERGENCY FOOD BOX INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADOLESCENT AND PARENT SUPPORT IN ↗
- Who funds IOWA RIVER HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-YWCA ↗
- Who funds FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds RAPHA REINS ↗
- Who funds CENTER ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds UNITYPOINT HEALTH-MARSHALLTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marshalltown Area United Way · Ann C Keyser Charitable Trust · Martha Ellen Tye Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bill & Phyllis Lane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bill & Phyllis Lane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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