· Private foundation
Aalfs Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $134,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS | $15,000 |
| SIOUX CITY ART CENTER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $10,000 |
| SANFORD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GOODFELLOW CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| SIOUX CITY PUBLIC MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| THE ORPHEUM THEATRE ENDOWMENT INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SATURDAY IN THE PARK | $2,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF SIOUXLAND | $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 (FY17–23, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SRSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +112%
- UWUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +6%
- CHCAMP HIGH HOPES2× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- MSMERCYONE SIOUXLAND ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SSAFEPLACEone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -18%
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +43%
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 act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
The sioux falls state theatre company is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to preserve a historic landmark and provide community access to a unique state-of-the-art entertainment and education venue. the renovated state theatre will…
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
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.
The iowa women's foundation is committed to improving the lives of iowa's women and girls. we use research to uncover barriers to women's success as well as their greatest needs, and we invest our passion and resources accordingly.
To enrich the quality of life and support independence and vitality for our members. this is done by meeting the social, recreational and educational needs of members, in an environment that is fun, safe, inclusive and courteous for all
Financial assistance to other 501(c)(3) organizations
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…
Our mission is to enrich sioux falls culture, economy, and opportunity by building a stronger and more vibrant arts community.
Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.
To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Orpheum Theatre Preservation Projectltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds SANFORD CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE PRESERVATION PROJECTLTD ↗
- Who funds SATURDAY IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AWARE ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Gleeson Family Foundation · Ronald B and Joan B Krage Foundation · Michael & Marjory Bennett Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · Helios Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Aalfs Family 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.
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.