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The Howe 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MUSCATINE | $1,008,975 |
| WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $80,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $70,000 |
| MUSCATINE CHARITIES INC | $30,000 |
| HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSCATINE FFA | $25,000 |
| STEM MATTERS INC | $15,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $12,632 |
| YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| MUSCATINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUND | $5,000 |
| UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $816k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +25% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- KRKing's Ridge Christian School2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue +33%
- RIROCK IN PREVENTION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $340k · revenue +142%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MBMUSCATINE - BEYOND 2000one grant, 2018 · $290k · revenue -99% · 43% of their budget
- GIGREATSCHOOLS INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -24%
- IWIowa Wesleyan Universityone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -150%
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.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To deter and reduce crime, especially juvenile delinquency and gang activity, through organized neighborhoods by improving community living conditions and strengthening families.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Dedicated to developing students who desire to love god and others, and are academically prepared for gods unique plan for their lives.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
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…
The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine and the most unlike its peers is Muscatine - Beyond 2000. 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 31 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 62 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds King's Ridge Christian School ↗
- Who funds ROCK IN PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE - BEYOND 2000 ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds Woodford Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATSCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercury One 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: HNI Charitable Foundation · KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · New Hope Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · Jensen Private Foundation Inc · United Way of Muscatine Iowa · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Stanley Consultants Charitable Foundation · Holthues Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment 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 The Howe 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% 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.
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