· Private foundation
The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF FORT DODGE | $75,000 |
| HAWKEYE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $39,000 |
| UNITED WAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR ACTORS INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FD SENIOR HIGH BAND BOOSTERS | $30,000 |
| FORT DODGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMEDIA MUSICA PLAYERS | $25,000 |
| FD CSD SENIOR HIGH CHOIR BOOSTERS | $20,150 |
| FORT DODGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BLANDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| DAYTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $14,600 |
| PRESERVE FORT DODGE INC | $13,248 |
| FD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,250 |
| AFES | $10,000 |
| FORT DODGE CHORAL SOCIETY | $9,076 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
47 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 7 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; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBlanden Charitable Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +103%
- HCHawkeye Community Theatre6× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +29% · 52% of their budget
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FDFORT DODGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $51k
- FCFD CSD SENIOR HIGH VOCALone grant, 2020 · $30k
- FDFORT DODGE BAND BOOSTERSone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…
Iowa dance theatre's mission is to raise awareness, develop appreciation, increase opportunities and support dance as a performing art within our community.
The mission of the fort madison chamber of commerce is to promote retail and commercial development as well as tourism in fort madison and the surrounding area.
The greater des moines public art foundation places art in public spaces through public and private collaborations.
Raise funds to support area school district.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
To build community endowments, be a resource for a broad range of community needs (arts and culture, education, health and human services, historic preservation, etc.) and to assist donors by offering a variety of giving options.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 91 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.
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: United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge · Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Siefer Charitable Tua Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · James W and Frances M Ackerman Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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