· Public charity
The Trustees of Grinnell College
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." the college pursues…
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.
The 8 grants below total $245,147 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,738,383 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,493,236 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER POWESHIEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $103,380 |
| GRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC | $50,200 |
| GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $45,350 |
| GRINNELL AREA CHAMBER COMMERCE | $14,919 |
| GRINNELL-NEWBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $9,388 |
| THE GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP | $7,500 |
| GRINNELL FARM TO TABLE | $7,500 |
| GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE | $6,910 |
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 (FY22–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $14M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS
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Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS
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Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · FELLOWSHIPS · INTERNSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- GRGRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +35%
- COCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELL8× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +7% · 26% of their budget
- GSGRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- EJEssie Justice Groupgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +181%
- APAhrens Park Foundationone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -51%
- TCTHE COLLECTIVE THE CLTV INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 support grinnell regional medical center and community healthcare.
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.
To promote development of new business and to support and expand existing businesses in grimes, iowa.
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…
To foster, encourage, and promote by financial or other means, the establishment and growth of industry and business in greene county, iowa.
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.
Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.
To improve the welfare of children and their families through education, training, and support for the prevention of substance abuse, and child abuse and neglect.
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grinnell Regional Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Ahrens Park Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 34. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 7% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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 Poweshiek Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELL ↗
- Who funds Essie Justice Group ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Ahrens Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE THE CLTV INC ↗
- Who funds Grinnell Volunteer Fire Association ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE ↗
- Who funds LINK Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND OF GRINNELL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds POWESHIEK ANIMAL LEAGUE SHELTER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY LOCAL FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Grinnell-Newburg Boosters ↗
- Who funds Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr ↗
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 Poweshiek Community Foundation · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Brownell Family Foundation · Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Ramsey Family Foundation · United Fund of Grinnell Iowa Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Trustees of Grinnell College 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.