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The Morgan E Cline Perpetual Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Education$900kHuman Services$169kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$20kHousing & Shelter$20kAnimals$3kOther$348k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
CITY OF EXLINE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%KIDS WORLD: $5k → 10%RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA: $50k → 14%RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA: $25k → 14%KIDS WORLD: $22k → 14%KIDS WORLD: $20k → 14%RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA: $20k → 14%RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA: $20k → 14%KIDS WORLD: $4k → 14%KIDS WORLD: $3k → 14%RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA: $150 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$1.3M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+48%

Still filing today

36%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

  • RL
    RATHBUN LAKE AREA YOUNG MENS CHRIST
    5× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +10%
  • KW
    KIDS WORLD INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CENTERVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MV
    MOULTON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
  • DP
    DRAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • AC
    APPANOOSE COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Apple Daycare Inc

Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.

Human Services
2
Calhoun County Economic Development

Promote and service the communities within calhoun county

3
Ames Community Preschool Center

To provide consistent, reliable, safe and affordable childcare to Ames area children that engages each child and encourages his or her best personal growth and development.

Human Services
4
Altoona Area Chamber of Commerce

The promotion of altoona, ia

Community Improvement
5
Adams County Development Council

To enhance, retain, and attract commercial, industrial, and agricultural growth, development, and diversity within adams county and its cities, towns and ports.

Community Improvement
6
Osage Community Daycare

Providing day care services to mitchell county, iowa, and the surrounding area. 50 to 70 children are serviced on a daily basis.

Human Services
7
Caseville Chamber of Commerce

To promote the community and to inform the public of the local business within the community. additionaly, to host events to draw tourism to the community of caseville

Community Improvement
8
Appanoose County Day Care Inc

To provide child care to the children of appanoose county.

Human Services
9
Appanoose Economic Development Corp

To assist in quality job creation that will serve to increase both the economic vitality of the area and the quality of life enjoyed by the residents of the county

10
Caswell County Chamber of Commerce

To promote the economic and civic interests of individuals, community leaders, businesses and institutions in caswell county.

11
Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members

12
Itasca Economic Development Corpor

To grow the itasca county economy through education, research and outreach that creates business opportunities

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chariton Valley Regional Housing Trust Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids World Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $900,000 · EducationINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF EXLINE — $48,000 · OtherCITY OF EXLINEAPPANOOSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 · OtherAPPANOOSE COUNTY HISTORICA…MOULTON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — $20,500 · OtherMOULTON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGH…DRAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherDRAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUND…APPANOOSE COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES — $20,000 · OtherAPPANOOSE COMMUNITY CARE S…HISTORIC PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $20,000 · OtherHISTORIC PRESERVATION CORP…APPANOOSE ALL PLAY INC — $20,000 · OtherAPPANOOSE ALL PLAY INCCENTERVILLE FIRE AND RESCUE — $20,000 · OtherCENTERVILLE FIRE AND RESCU…18-80 CLUB — $20,000 · Other18-80 CLUBLORDS CUPBOARD INC — $18,000 · OtherREACHING ALL PEOPLE TOGETHER (RAPT) — $15,200 · Other+9 more — $36,634 · Other+9 moreRATHBUN LAKE AREA YOUNG MENS CHRIST — $115,150 · Human ServicesRATHBUN LAKE…KIDS WORLD INC — $53,500 · Human ServicesKIDS WORLD I…CENTERVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureAPPANOOSE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFUREVER FRIENDS RESCUE OF APPANOOSE COUNTY — $3,002 · Animals
Education$900,000Other$348,334Human Services$168,650Arts & Culture$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Animals$3,002

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $900,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetRATHBUN LAKE AREA YOUNG MENS CHRIST — $115,150 over 5y, 12% of budgetKIDS WORLD INC — $53,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCENTERVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAPPANOOSE COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAPPANOOSE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHARITON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCENTERVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFUREVER FRIENDS RESCUE OF APPANOOSE COUNTY — $3,002 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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 INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RATHBUN LAKE AREA YOUNG MENS CHRIST
  • Who funds KIDS WORLD INC
  • Who funds CENTERVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds APPANOOSE COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES
  • Who funds APPANOOSE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHARITON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND INC
  • Who funds CENTERVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  • Who funds FUREVER FRIENDS RESCUE OF APPANOOSE COUNTY

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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · South Central Iowa Community Founda · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Morgan E Cline Perpetual Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Morgan E Cline Perpetual Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Morgan E Cline Perpetual Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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