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Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$896k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$23M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Public Safety & DisasterHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$596k36%
FY202310$490k20%
FY20229$518k44%
FY20219$1.3M44%
FY20209$771kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.7MPhilanthropy$807kRecreation & Sports$672kCommunity Improvement$528kPublic Benefit$429kPublic Safety & Disaster$153kArts & Culture$100kHealth$66kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Iowa Area Community College Foundation$1,417,00055%
Rock Falls Area Betterment Inc$110,0001n/a
Nora Springs Farm Fire Service$99,311254%
Nora Springs Historical Society West Congress$68,0105n/a
Central Springs Ag Ed Boosters Inc$60,000328%
Nora Springs Impact Group$50,0001n/a
Nora Springs Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc$40,7271n/a
Floyd County Fair Society$10,00012%
North Central Iowa Ag in the Classroom$6,00022%
First Church of Christ Scientist$5,0005n/a
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All grantees of Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Iowa Area Community College Foundation$1,417,00055%
Rock Falls Area Betterment Inc$110,0001n/a
Nora Springs Farm Fire Service$99,311254%
Nora Springs Historical Society West Congress$68,0105n/a
Central Springs Ag Ed Boosters Inc$60,000328%
Nora Springs Impact Group$50,0001n/a
Nora Springs Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc$40,7271n/a
Floyd County Fair Society$10,00012%
North Central Iowa Ag in the Classroom$6,00022%
First Church of Christ Scientist$5,0005n/a
Nora Springs Community Foundation$4,0001n/a
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc$4,00010%
United Way of North Central Iowa$2,50010%
Floyd Community Volunteer Firedepartment Incorporated$2,50013%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Iowa Area Community College Foundation: $1,417,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetNora Springs Farm Fire Service: $99,311 over 2y, 54% of budgetCentral Springs Ag Ed Boosters Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetFloyd County Fair Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Central Iowa Ag in the Classroom: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLutheran Services in Iowa Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Iowa: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFloyd Community Volunteer Firedepartment Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

First Citizens Bank Charitable FoundationIA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa

How much does Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa give?
Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa reported 19 grants totaling $896,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Philanthropy (18%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
Who are Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: North Iowa Area Community College Foundation ($1.4M), Rock Falls Area Betterment Inc ($110k), Nora Springs Farm Fire Service ($99k).
Does Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Land O'Lakes Foundation.
Where is Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa based?
Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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