· Charitable trust
The Cy Rapp and Carolyn Rapp Charitable Trust
To provide charitable grants to qualified organizations in the greater shenandoah area for projects that promote the well being of shenandoah and the vincinity
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF SHENANDOAH | $104,500 |
| OUR HOUSE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $51,949 |
| VETERAN'S MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| VISION SHENANDOAH | $10,000 |
| GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its 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 +52% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 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; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +52%
- OHOUR HOUSE CHILD DEV2× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +7%
- GSGREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- PCPAGE CO CONSERVATION BOARDone grant, 2017 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
- SWSHENANDOAH WAR MEMORIAL TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -307%
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.
Support educational opportunities of students and faculty of the shenandoah community school district
To provide assistance and ensure the long-term sustainability of shenandoah medical center by securing financial resources, donor engagement, and health care promotion.
Support and education of the homeless by providing assistance in the form of grants for rental or other housing assistance.
Promotion of health care in shelby county iowa
To provide housing for low income families.
To encourage and assist sanford sheldon in its activities in providing health care, medical, and educational services to the region.
The shenandoah lgbtq center is a community based organization that strengthens the lgbtqia+ community through advocacy, education, programs, and safe spaces. we support these efforts by establishing relationships with key stakeholders,…
To provide financial support for the shenandoah county library system.
The shenandoah valley partnership (svp) works with public and private partners at the local, regional, and state level to develop an economic climate for business success throughout the shenandoah valley. through regional cooperation the…
Mental health care to those in need
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 GREATER SHENANDOAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE CHILD DEV ↗
- Who funds GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH WAR MEMORIAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds VISION SHENANDOAH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA ↗
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: Kay M Anderson Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Greater Shenandoah Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cy Rapp and Carolyn Rapp Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cy Rapp and Carolyn Rapp Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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