· Private foundation
Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $176k
- $250k+2 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES | $300,000 |
| NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $285,000 |
| CITY OF NORA SPRINGS | $75,506 |
| CENTRAL SPRINGS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,869 |
| CITY OF NORA SPRINGS | $50,000 |
| NORA SPRINGS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $36,782 |
| CENTRAL SPRINGS AG ED BOOSTERS INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| CITY OF NORA SPRINGS | $17,500 |
| DAUGHTERS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861- | $16,000 |
| CITY OF NORA SPRINGS | $10,000 |
| NORA SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY WEST CONGRESS | $6,000 |
| NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CITY OF NORA SPRINGS | $4,200 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC | $4,000 |
| NORA SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCITY OF NORA SPRINGS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M
- NINORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +63%
- CSCENTRAL SPRINGS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT5× · 2020–2024 · $232k
Funded once
- RFROCK FALLS AREA BETTERMENT INCone grant, 2020 · $110k
- NSNORA SPRINGS IMPACT GROUPone grant, 2020 · $50k
- COCITY OF PLYMOUTHone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa
To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
County museum- mission is to derive and maintain the historical accuracy of floyd county, ia
To provide an annual agricultural fair for the youth of marshall county
Provide fire protection to the community of dyersville, ia and the surrounding areas.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds NORA SPRINGS FARM FIRE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Central Springs Ag Ed Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds FLOYD COUNTY FAIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of North Central Iowa ↗
- Who funds FLOYD COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIREDEPARTMENT INCORPORATED ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams Family Foundation of Nora Springs Iowa. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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