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Maurice Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of Maurice Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 23 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Maurice Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $54k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $6,659 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA | $3,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $3,000 |
| CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA | $2,001 |
| HIS HANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ON THE GO MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER | $2,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +60% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- MVMOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +146%
THE NIGHT MINISTRY7× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +11%- CCCrisis Center for South Suburbia7× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MOUNT VERNONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- CICrosswinds Incone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -42%
- LVLISBON-MOUNT VERNON AMBULANCE SERVICEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +54%
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.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Training Evangelistic Leadership. 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 33 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) — 2% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 83 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 GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope Community Development Assoc ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ON THE GO MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Regency Oaks Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE ↗
- Who funds REVIVAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOR STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY DAVISON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds The Catcade Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE FRIENDS ↗
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: Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Maurice Paul and Glennys Brimmer Foundation · David Neuhaus Family Foundation · Bryant Foundation Inc · The Accel Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Edward Jones 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 Maurice 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.
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Kimberly Home — 0% 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.