· Public charity
Aging Resources of Central Iowa
The mission of AGING RESOURCES OF CENTRAL IOWA is to lead, advocate, and serve; as well as plan and coordinate resources in the provision of services to older persons in central iowa, their families, caregivers, or representatives, enabling elders to lead independent, meaningful, and dignified lives in the least restrictive environment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $2,304,661 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,909,408 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $604,747 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $990k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY IOWA | $649,986 |
| WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $340,393 |
| HIRTA PUBLIC TRANSIT | $228,422 |
| JASPER COUNTY IOWA | $190,701 |
| MADISON COUNTY ELDER SERVICES | $184,626 |
| WARREN COUNTY IOWA | $157,790 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER DES MOINES | $107,668 |
| HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES | $93,487 |
| KNOXVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS | $87,168 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $86,867 |
| BOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL | $73,421 |
| PERRY LUTHERAN HOME | $71,150 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $15,336 |
| DART | $6,912 |
| CENTRAL IOWA RSVP | $5,622 |
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 (FY21–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WCWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +9%
- MCMADISON COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $931k · revenue +29% · 54% of their budget
- HSHEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $753k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IVIOWA VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCCOMPASSIONATE CARE TRANSITone grant, 2023 · $7k
- BGBishop Garrigan Catholic Schone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
The Lutheran Home for the Aged Association East (LHAA-E) is committed to providing essential services to our residents to satisfy their special housing needs and to provide quality programs designed to promote their physical, metal, social…
To provide health care services to seniors through a multi-level retirement community. the home shall provide optimal health services at an affordable cost consistent with maintaining adequate and appropriate programs, services, modern…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Mission statement: providing quality care and housing services for north iowa's 55+ population in a nurturing christian atmosphere.our commitment: our commitment is to support the elderly in maintaining or improving their qualtiy of life.…
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
Our mission is to provide person-centered services based on christian values.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
Care for elderly and disabled.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
To provide a facility which has a pleasant and home-like atmosphere and also provide and made available an enriching program of services that apply to the needs of the residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Rebuilding Together Greater Des Moi. 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.
11 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. 11 of the 29 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 WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Home for the Aged Association - West ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds New Horizons Adult Day Center ↗
- Who funds EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHPCOMMUNITY 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · United Way of Story County Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Aging Resources of Central Iowa 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.