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The Slappey Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Academy for ScholasticPersonal | $1,500 |
| Matthew 25 | $1,000 |
| Ecumenical Center | $1,000 |
| Prairiewoods | $1,000 |
| Willis Dady Shelter | $500 |
| Community Health Free Clinic | $500 |
| Coe College | $500 |
| Kids First Law Center | $500 |
| Orchestra Iowa | $500 |
| Johnson County Foundation | $500 |
| Eastern Iowa Arts Academy | $350 |
| Indian Creek Nature Center | $250 |
| Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity | $250 |
| Fresh Start Ministries | $250 |
| Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundat | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- M2MATTHEW 259× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +719%
- CMCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +416%
- IWIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- TGTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- DEDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +7%
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF THE RIO GRANDEone grant, 2019 · $250
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.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of East Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Coe College. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds CSPS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Iowa Arts Academy ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FURNITURE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds IOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE NETWORK ↗
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 · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union
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 Slappey Family 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.
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% 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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