· Private foundation
The Miccio Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAMA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHEAST IOWA | $9,800 |
| POWESHIEK ANIMAL LEAGUE SHELTER | $8,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY | $8,223 |
| SAFE HAVEN OF IOWA COUNTY | $7,000 |
| IT TAKES A VILLAGE ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,900 |
| PAWS & MORE ANIMAL SHELTER | $4,500 |
| ALL GOD'S CREATURES | $3,550 |
| ALMOST HOME ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,480 |
| ONE DOG RESCUE | $3,106 |
| SOLAS SUPPORT OUR LOCAL ANIMAL | $3,000 |
| BAILING OUT BENJI | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA | $2,000 |
| FREYA FELINE TRAP NEUTER RETURN INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $13k) 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +568%
- SHSAFE HAVEN OF IOWA COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +62%
- DFDOGS FOREVER OF IOWA5× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- AWANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION OF IOWAone grant, 2018 · $7k
- MHMAHASKA HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PFPEOPLE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Animal Rescue
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To help rescue unwanted pets
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Welfare Friends and the most unlike its peers is Horizons a Family Service Alliance. 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 18 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
34 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. 34 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 WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF IOWA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOGS FOREVER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds WHISKERS TNR OF WARREN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HUMANE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Northeast Iowa ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PETS ↗
- Who funds TAMA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EMMET COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CREATURES ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF MARSHALLTOWN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PAWS ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FUR FUN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FURRY FRIENDS REFUGE ↗
- Who funds LAST HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds C & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY ANIMAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF CARROLL INC ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds IOWA PET ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Animal Relief Foundation Trust · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · On Shore Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 The Miccio 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.
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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