How much does Wittern Family Charitable Foundation give?

Wittern Family Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $77,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wittern Family Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (13%), Environment (13%).

Who are Wittern Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Drake University ($125k), Madison County Foundation for Environmental Education ($100k), St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ($41k).

Does Wittern Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wittern Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Wittern Family Charitable Foundation based?

Wittern Family Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

Wittern Family Charitable Foundation

Wittern Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wittern Family Charitable Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Wittern Family Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Ita Group 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.

$77k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$354kHealth$135kEnvironment$128kCommunity Improvement$90kHuman Services$90kReligion$50kArts & Culture$47kYouth Development$34kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $27k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MAYO CLINIC	$50,000
NORTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN CASA	$5,000
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY	$5,000
FLANDREAU HIGH SCHOOL	$4,000
BREANNA B - DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$4,000
WEST DES MOINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$3,400
VICTOR M H - KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$2,000
ANTHONY W - IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY	$2,000
SMILE TRAIN	$1,000
EAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Wittern Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wittern Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$744k · 37 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$744k

$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+43%

Still filing today

54%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

DRAKE UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +20%
SA
St Anne's Episcopal School Inc
4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +41%
CC
CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES
4× · 2019–2022 · $19k · revenue +97%

Funded once

BP
BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue -5%
OP
ORCHARD PLACE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +135%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy

Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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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

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

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…

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Children's Cancer Connection

Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.

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Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement

State University of Iowa Foundation

The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…

Education

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of 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…

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchard Place Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/57

Grantees still filing

40/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$652,050Education$148,500Health$68,900Animals$54,250Human Services$43,525Food & Nutrition$28,000Arts & Culture$19,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA45.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Ita Group Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Businessolver Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Athene Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wittern Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wittern Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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