· Private foundation
W Gerard & Colleen a Huiskamp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of W GERARD & COLLEEN A HUISKAMP FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK ISLAND AMERICAN LEGION | $22,000 |
| JOIN HANDS - ESL - THOMAS TERRY COM | $16,000 |
| ALLEMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| JORDAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| JORDAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TWO RIVERS YMCA-ROCK ISLAND LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| EVERY CHILD | $5,000 |
| ST JOAN OF ARC CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JORDAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $3,900 |
| ALLEMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ALLEMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| TROTTER HOUSE | $2,000 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
50 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 20 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- LFLIFE & FAMILY EDUCATIONAL TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +52%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +39%
- EEVERYCHILD6× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- GCGRIFFIN CENTERCATHOLIC URBAN PROGRAone grant, 2017 · $12k
- RIROCK ISLAND AMERICAN LEGION POST 41one grant, 2017 · $10k
- W4WELLS 4 WELLNESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +240%
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 educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
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…
Jdcf works to preserve and steward land and water for the lasting well-being of all people and wildlife.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
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…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The iowa law school foundation provides the university of iowa college of law with a margin of distinction in fulfilling its mission of excellence in teaching, research and services by maintaining funds to use and apply the whole or any…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of the Heartland Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Butterworth Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
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 81 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 FRIENDS OF DOUGLAS PARK ↗
- Who funds LIFE & FAMILY EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds WELLS 4 WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR BOARD OF ROCK ISLAND ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Moline Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Melvin L McKay Ta · Scott County Regional Authority · McLaughlin Family Foundation · Churchill Family Charitable 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 W Gerard & Colleen a Huiskamp 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.
- Wheaton College — 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.
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