· Private foundation
Tronvold 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $4k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $55,201 |
| UNITED WAY SUNCOAST | $500 |
| CRITTER CRUSADERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS I | $500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $300 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $250 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $250 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $250 |
| MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $250 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SEMPER FI AMERICAS FUND | $200 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $200 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $200 |
| CATHOLIC EXTENSION | $100 |
| WILLIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES | $100 |
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, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +573%
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +28%
- FOFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- HAHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $6k
- HAHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Underdog Rescue of Florida Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 68 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
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 · Mercy Medical Center · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Rsm US Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · The Hall-Perrine 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 Tronvold 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 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.