· Private foundation
The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k47 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE | $26,000 |
| THE COUSE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF | $11,000 |
| CLARKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE | $10,000 |
| LORAS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $5,000 |
| GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $4,000 |
| COLTS DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS | $3,000 |
| GRAND OPERA HOUSE | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF | $2,500 |
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, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +47%
- CUClarke University of Dubuque Iowa8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +10%
- LCLORAS COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ISIOWA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLANDone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Providing compassionate care for persons with serious and terminal illness and their loved ones.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
Support student achievement by promoting investment in the Dubuque Public Schools.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
The visiting nurse association exists to promote and improve the health, wellness, and safety of individuals and communities through provision of comprehensive, home, and community based initiatives and services.
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
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…
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finley Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carnegie-Stout Public Library Found. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 7% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 60 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 UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUND ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHENS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Stonehill Franciscan Services ↗
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: Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · The Butler Family Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Dupaco Community Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Gantz Foundation Charitable Trust · Sirk Family 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 Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 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.