· Private foundation
Woodward Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way (5 agencies in IA and WI) | $25,600 |
| Dubuque Community Y | $12,500 |
| Opening Doors | $10,000 |
| Thompson Center on Lourdes | $10,000 |
| Crescent Community Health Center | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Inspiring Community Inc | $6,250 |
| Platteville Fire Department | $5,000 |
| East Dubuque Public Library | $5,000 |
| Iowa College Foundation | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- ICINSPIRING COMMUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +523%
- DMDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +38%
- RCRiverview Center Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- BCBlank Childrens Hospitalone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TMThe Mooring Programs Ind dba Apricityone grant, 2023 · $12k
- DADUBUQUE ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +87%
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.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
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…
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
The des moines water works park foundation is dedicated to developing and executing the master plan created for water works park. the plan turns the park into a national model incorporating recreation, education and conservation within the…
To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.
The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finley Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Platteville Library Foundation 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 39 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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 INSPIRING COMMUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dickeyville Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLATTEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds AD GERMAN WAREHOUSE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Riverview Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS ↗
- Who funds IOWA NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLATTEVILLE MAINSTREET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds URBAN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds PLATTEVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Community Resource Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Two By Two Character Development ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Heartland Charitable Trust · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Gantz Foundation Charitable Trust
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 Woodward Foundation Inc 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.
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