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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$10MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$986kHealth$540kHousing & Shelter$529kCrime & Legal$439kEmployment$10k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $2,304,661, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,909,408 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $604,747 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $990k
$93,487
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KNOXVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS: $131k → 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $130k → 10%KNOXVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS: $119k → 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $130k → 10%KNOXVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS: $106k → 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $127k → 10%KNOXVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS: $103k → 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $123k → 10%KNOXVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS: $87k → 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $15k → 10%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES: $183k → 17%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES: $169k → 17%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES: $159k → 17%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES: $149k → 17%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES: $93k → 17%MADISON COUNTY ELDER SERVICES: $195k → 10%MADISON COUNTY ELDER SERVICES: $193k → 10%MADISON COUNTY ELDER SERVICES: $185k → 10%MADISON COUNTY ELDER SERVICES: $180k → 10%MADISON COUNTY ELDER SERVICES: $179k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $512k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $476k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $427k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $405k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $340k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 24 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$14M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+603%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +9%
  • MC
    MADISON COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $931k · revenue +29% · 54% of their budget
  • HS
    HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $753k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IV
    IOWA VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CC
    COMPASSIONATE CARE TRANSIT
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • BG
    Bishop Garrigan Catholic Sch
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Martin Luther Home Corporation

To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.

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2
The Lutheran Home for the Aged Association-East

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…

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3
Eastern Star Masonic Home

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…

Human Services
4
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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5
Good Shepherd Geriatric Center Inc

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.…

Health
6
Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc

To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.

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7
Lutheran Sunset Ministries

Our mission is to provide person-centered services based on christian values.

Housing & Shelter
8
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
9
Tripoli Nursing and Rehab

Care for elderly and disabled.

Health
10
Iowa Specialty Hospital Foundation - Clarion
Health
11
Iowa City Hospice Inc

To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

Human Services
12
Faith Lutheran Home

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POLK COUNTY IOWA: $3,090,923 · OtherPOLK COUNTY IOWAHIRTA PUBLIC TRANSIT: $1,236,317 · OtherHIRTA PUBLIC TRANSITJASPER COUNTY CONSERVATION: $966,955 · OtherJASPER COUNTY CONSERVATIONWARREN COUNTY IOWA: $849,497 · OtherWARREN COUNTY IOWABOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL: $492,194 · OtherBOONE COUNTY HOSPITALDNS GROCERY: $289,664 · Other+13 more: $772,578 · Other+13 moreWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,161,290 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INCMADISON COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES INC: $931,216 · Human ServicesMADISON COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES INCHEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY: $753,047 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF …KNOXVILLE SENIOR CENTER: $545,457 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE SENIOR CENTERLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $526,066 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INCREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI: $528,869 · PhilanthropyLutheran Home for the Aged Association - West: $446,480 · Housing & ShelterIowa Legal Aid: $438,815 · Crime & LegalEYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $35,076 · Health+1 more: $810 · Health
Other$7,698,128Human Services$4,917,076Philanthropy$528,869Housing & Shelter$446,480Crime & Legal$438,815Health$35,886

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,161,290 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMADISON COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES INC: $931,216 over 5y, 54% of budgetHEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY: $753,047 over 5y, 17% of budgetKNOXVILLE SENIOR CENTER: $545,457 over 5y, 65% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI: $528,869 over 5y, 20% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $526,066 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLutheran Home for the Aged Association - West: $446,480 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $438,815 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNew Horizons Adult Day Center: $96,053 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetEYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $35,076 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHPCOMMUNITY INC: $810 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …United Way of Central…United Way of Story C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA27.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aging Resources of Central Iowa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aging Resources of Central Iowa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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