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United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States

To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.

$866k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Youth Development$1.2MCrime & Legal$841kHuman Services$802kHealth$554kHousing & Shelter$548kEmployment$404kFood & Nutrition$316kPublic Safety & Disaster$291kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $626k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYSGIRLS CLUB OF GREAT DBQ$73,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$70,000
DBQ COMM YMCAYWCA$50,000
RIVERVIEW CENTER$45,000
COMM SOLUTIONS EASTERN IA$40,000
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH PROGRAM$38,000
ST MARKS YOUTH ENRICHMENT$37,500
ROSECRANCE$30,000
IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICAS GRADS$30,000
OPENING DOORS$30,000
PRESENTATION LANTERN$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,000
CRESCENT COMM HEALTH CENTER$28,500
IOWA LEGAL AID$25,000
THE WORKSHOP$25,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 6%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $13k → 10%NORTHEAT IA AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 6%NORTHEAST IA AGENCY ON AGING: $15k → 17%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $26k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $26k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $87k → 11%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $52k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $52k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 11%DBQ COMMUNITY YMCAYWCA: $116k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $109k → 11%DBQ COMMUNITY YMCAYWCA: $85k → 11%DBQ COMMUNITY YMCAYWCA: $85k → 11%DBQ COMM YMCAYWCA: $65k → 11%DBQ COMMUNITY YMCAYWCA: $65k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 11%DBQ COMM YMCAYWCA: $50k → 11%MARITA THEISEN CHILDCARE CTR: $34k → 11%MARITA THEISEN CHILDCARE CENTER: $20k → 11%MARITA THEISEN CHILDCARE CENTER: $12k → 11%HELPING SERVICES OF NE IOWA: $10k → 11%HELPING SERVICES OF NE IOWA: $10k → 11%HELPING SERVICES OF NE IOWA: $10k → 11%HELPING SERVICES OF NE IA: $10k → 11%HELPING SERVICES OF NE IA: $9k → 11%DURIDE: $8k → 11%DURIDE: $8k → 11%DURIDE: $8k → 11%DURIDE: $7k → 11%RED BASKET PROJECT: $6k → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 37 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
3

Total granted

$5.1M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+28%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $490k · revenue +35%
  • DC
    DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y
    6× · 2020–2025 · $467k · revenue +86%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2020–2025 · $291k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +28%
  • OV
    OTHER VARIOUS AGENCIES SPECIAL PROJECTS
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -44%

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
United Way of North Central 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…

Philanthropy
2
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
3
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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4
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
5
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
6
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
7
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center

To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.

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8
Dubuque County Early Childhood Inc

Dubuque County Early Childhood builds community collaboration, commitment, and advocacy for a quality early childhood system.

Community Improvement
9
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Action of Eastern Iowa

Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.

Community Improvement
11
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
12
Common Good Iowa

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Fountain of Youth Program. 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 35 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number7%0%<5yr5%10%5–10yr7%20%10–20yr6%20%20–35yr8%27%35–55yr68%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value7%0%<5yr5%6%5–10yr7%15%10–20yr6%16%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr68%35%55yr+

The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
4%
405/9,834

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.

04the grantee network

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 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DUBUQUE — $504,607 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DUBUQUEOPENING DOORS — $180,743 · OtherOPENING DOORSTHE DUBUQUE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $153,621 · OtherTHE DUBUQUE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONSt Mark Youth Enrichment — $149,561 · OtherSt Mark Youth EnrichmentTHE SALVATION ARMY — $120,686 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $105,132 · OtherSUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES CENTER — $102,332 · OtherCrescent Community Health Center — $140,886 · OtherCrescent Community Health CenterEAST CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT CORP — $81,792 · Other+19 more — $576,703 · Other+19 moreDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y — $466,517 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE COMMUNITY YAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $290,751 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross…Hillcrest Family Services Inc — $219,047 · Human ServicesHillcrest Family Services I…HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $126,000 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTI…MARITA THEISEN CHILDCARE CENTER — $66,525 · Human ServicesHELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $47,206 · Human Services+4 more — $83,447 · Human Services+4 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $490,075 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CL…Two By Two Character Development — $121,000 · Youth DevelopmentTwo By Two Charac…DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $118,655 · Youth DevelopmentDUBUQUE DREAM CEN…IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS FOR AME…Iowa Legal Aid — $191,919 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB — $114,996 · Crime & LegalTHE WORKSHOP — $162,940 · EmploymentThe Fountain of Youth Program — $142,974 · EmploymentRiverview Center Inc — $258,703 · EducationCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD — $34,400 · EducationCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA — $144,503 · Public BenefitDELAWARE DUBUQUE AND JACKSON COUNTY REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY — $82,035 · Public Benefit
Other$2,116,063Human Services$1,299,493Youth Development$819,730Crime & Legal$306,915Employment$305,914Education$293,103Public Benefit$226,538

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $490,075 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y — $466,517 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $290,751 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRiverview Center Inc — $258,703 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHillcrest Family Services Inc — $219,047 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIowa Legal Aid — $191,919 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOPENING DOORS — $180,743 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetTHE WORKSHOP — $162,940 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DUBUQUE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $153,621 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSt Mark Youth Enrichment — $149,561 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA — $144,503 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program — $142,974 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetCrescent Community Health Center — $140,886 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $126,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTwo By Two Character Development — $121,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $118,655 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB — $114,996 over 4y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $105,132 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES CENTER — $102,332 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE DUBUQUE AND JACKSON COUNTY REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY — $82,035 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEAST CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT CORP — $81,792 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetMARITA THEISEN CHILDCARE CENTER — $66,525 over 3y, 34% of budgetMINDFUL MINUTES — $64,330 over 5y, 29% of budgetDUBUQUE AREAS LABOR HARVEST — $59,736 over 6y, 13% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS — $51,138 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $49,451 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $47,206 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $34,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD — $34,400 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetDUBUQUE AREA LABOR-MANAGEMENT COUNCIL — $32,050 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $30,396 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSECRANCE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDURIDE — $29,447 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools — $25,684 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetDUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S — $12,325 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

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 Foundation …Dubuque Racing Associ…James B & Melita a Mc…Alliant Energy Founda…Heartland Charitable …Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Spahn & Rose Lumber C…Falb Family Charitabl…Schoen Family Charita…Sirk Family FoundationAy McDonald Charitabl…Mathis Pfohl Foundati…
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA64.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Heartland Charitable Trust · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Schoen Family Charitable Trust · Sirk Family Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Mathis Pfohl 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 United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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