· Private foundation
Better Health for Iowans Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $381k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRANSITIONS DMC INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BURLINGTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| IOWA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $27,455 |
| ALANO SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| IOWA FOOD BANK | $18,000 |
| WASHINGTON COMM SCHOOLS MUSIC PROGR | $16,400 |
| LOUISA COUNTY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH COA | $15,000 |
| Appanoose Community Care Serv | $15,000 |
| SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC | $14,000 |
| IOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| RINGGOLD CO PUBLUC HEALTH | $12,040 |
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 (FY18–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% 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 10% of Better Health for Iowans Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDTransitions DMC Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $58k · revenue +154% · 25% of their budget
- SISOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +95%
- IDIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $19k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- WCWAYNE CO PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCEone grant, 2018 · $2k
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINESone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -22%
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 safe, structured, peaceful and happy sober living environment. to unify families and help people become productive members of society. build positive relationships and great fellowship with others. to live a clean and sober life…
The organization assists individuals and families with economic hardships.
The mission of the dream center is to make a difference in our communities by meeting both physical and spiritual needs. we are partnering with local organizations to reinstate serving our community each second saturday of the month and to…
To build a movement for justice led by immigrants and refugees in iowa by providing high-quality legal services and community empowerment through organizing.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 40 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 Transitions DMC Inc ↗
- Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds THE ALANO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds KPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Better Health for Iowans Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Better Health for Iowans Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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