· Private foundation
Alliant Energy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k889 grants · $823k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $573k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | $200,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $175,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC | $100,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $85,000 |
| HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC | $85,000 |
| TREES FOREVER INC | $75,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC - NATIONAL OFFICE | $50,000 |
| DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y | $50,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR | $50,000 |
| HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| MARION PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA | $39,386 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $38,100 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
1217 repeat relationships — 691 still active in FY2025, 526 since wound down; 93 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +39%
- TFTREES FOREVER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
- HAHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $653k · revenue +28%
Funded once
FORWARD COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%- KIKEEP IOWA BEAUTIFULone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -23%
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +53%
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
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.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Belmond Historical Society. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1237 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. 1237 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAFETY BLITZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTCR INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP IOWA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Green County Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
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: Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Trustage Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Veridian Foundation Inc
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 Alliant Energy Foundation Inc 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.