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Agva Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISION ATLANTIC CHILD DEV CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL IOWA RESEARCH ASSOCIA | $10,000 |
| NOBLE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FARMER IN MY CLASSROOM | $10,000 |
| NORTH IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $5,000 |
| BELMOND AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE | $5,000 |
| FARM RESCUE | $2,500 |
| NORMAN BORLAUG HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA DAIRY & AG FOUNDATIO | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- BABELMOND AREA ARTS COUNCIL4× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +131%
- IAIOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2021 · $16k · revenue +17%
- HHHEALTHY HARVEST OF NORTH IOWA3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- FFFARM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- PGPEORIA GROWNgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +276%
- CCCAL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $4k
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 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.
Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.
The organization's mission is to conduct and promote nutrient management research inlcuding promotion of product measurement, validation process and nutrient management.
Agricultural education & research
To enhance the sustainability of farms and ranches in their comunities.
The iowa valley rc&d provides ways for benton, iowa, johnson, linn, poweshiek, and tama county residents to plan and implement projects that will make their communities better places to live.
To carry out research & education efforts relating to agriculture in north central iowa & obtain funds for acquisition of land suitable for agricultural research for the purpose of addressing problems concerning north central iowa…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to assist educators in teaching kindergarten through 12th grade students about iowa agriculture and its importance to our economy and society.
The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.
Improving the economic welfare of the rural community in will county through our membership programs and activities and to be a voice for agriculture in will county for those who share an interest in the farming community and industry.
Agriculture promotion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Harvest of North Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 BELMOND AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST OF NORTH IOWA ↗
- Who funds FARM RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NORMAN BORLAUG HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL GARDENS OF NORTH IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEORIA GROWN ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Agva 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.
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