Heartland Charitable Trust
Dubuque, IA · EIN 42-6549922. Reported 78 grants totalling $2,105,318 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Heartland Charitable Trust, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,100 and $30,700; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $151,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubuque Museum of Art | Dubuque, IA | $253,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| East Dubuque District Library Foundation | East Dubuque, IL | $251,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Kansas City Community Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $138,353 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dubuque County Historical Society | Dubuque, IA | $127,999 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| First Christian Church | Keokuk, IA | $113,146 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Loras College | Dubuque, IA | $110,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Holy Family Catholic Schools | Dubuque, IA | $91,010 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Cottage Grove Community Library Inc | Cottage Grove, WI | $87,463 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Church of the Resurrection Dubuque Ia | Dubuque, IA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Columbkille Church Dubuque Ia | Dubuque, IA | $68,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trijang Buddhist Institute Inc | Northfield, VT | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation | Dubuque, IA | $67,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hillsdale College | Hillsdale, MI | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of St Marys | Dubuque, IA | $42,647 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc | Keokuk, IA | $36,950 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Finley Health Foundation Inc | Dubuque, IA | $30,550 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| St John Neumann Catholic Church | Eagan, MN | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Resourcesunite | Dubuque, IA | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marion Christian Church | Marion, IA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dubuque Humane Society | Dubuque, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kitty City Kansas Rescue Incorporated | Shawnee, KS | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | Iowa City, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dubu Que | Dubuque, IA | $17,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Captain Robert L Martin Commemoration Committee | Dubuque, IA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Helping Hands Medical Mission Inc | Irving, TX | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dubuque Rescue Mission | Dubuque, IA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Hope Pregnancy Center of Sheboygan Inc | Sheboygan, WI | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque | Dubuque, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dubuque Dream Center Inc | Dubuque, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iowa Newspaper Foundation | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pleasantville Sports Association | Pleasantville, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Augustine University Parish | Platteville, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Warsaw Rural Fire Protection District | Warsaw, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kansas City Pet Project | Kansas City, MO | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa | Dubuque, IA | $9,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Anthony Church Dubuque Ia | Dubuque, IA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Inc | Maryknoll, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Warrensburg R-VI School District Foundation Inc | Warrensburg, MO | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association | Dubuque, IA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Keokuk Union Depot Foundation | Keokuk, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crescent Community Health Center | Dubuque, IA | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dubuque County Hockey Association | Dubuque, IA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central College | Pella, IA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monona United Methodist Church | Monona, IA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Mark Youth Enrichment | Dubuque, IA | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
20 of 49 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Helping individuals, families and companies give to charities and build their philanthropic legacies. - Dubuque Museum of Art
ARTS, CULTURE AND HUMANITIES - National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES - East Dubuque District Library Foundation
SOCIAL SERVICES/ SOCIAL BENEFITS - Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Friends of St Mary's Steeple Square
SOCIAL SERVICES/SOCIAL BENEFITS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $748,849 | $12,025 |
| 2022 | 21 | $565,255 | $18,000 |
| 2023 | 29 | $791,214 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
60% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Heartland Charitable Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 747, Dubuque, IA, 52004.
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