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Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc

The mission of bravo greater des moines is to leverage community resources to maximize the impact of arts, culture and heritage to advance regional priorities.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$550k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$31MScience & Tech$3.2MEnvironment$2.6MAnimals$1.7MCommunity Improvement$725kHuman Services$513kPublic Benefit$470kRecreation & Sports$289kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $690k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.6M
$32,825
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS$550,000
EDMUNDSON ART FOUNDATION INC DBA DES MOINES ART CENTER$500,000
BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC$375,000
HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION$332,075
SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA$305,200
BALLET DES MOINES$289,580
DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC$286,425
DES MOINES FILM SOCIETY$246,283
GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN$245,000
DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE$240,179
DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$220,400
MAINFRAME STUDIOS$198,910
ARTS FOR THE CITY INC$175,650
LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION$163,025
SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION$150,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $471k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LATINO RESOURCES DBA LATINO HERITAGE FESTIVAL: $39k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES DBA LATINO HERITAGE FESTIVAL: $30k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES INC: $28k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES INC: $25k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES INC: $25k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES INC: $23k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES INC: $19k → 10%LATINO RESOURCES INC: $15k → 10%CAPITAL CITY PRIDE DES MOINES: $125k → 10%CAPITAL CITY PRIDE DES MOINES: $119k → 10%ETHNIC MINORITIES OF BURMA ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 10%CSA: $10k → 10%CSA: $5k → 10%OAK RIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $3k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 101 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
25

Total granted

$41M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

58%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • DM
    DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +64%
  • EA
    Edmundson Art Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +53%
  • SC
    SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • UC
    URBANDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • CO
    City of Pleasant Hill
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • CO
    City of Indianola Police Department
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
2
Des Moines Golf and Country Club Educational Foundation
—
3
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation
Education
4
Iowa Dance Theatre

Iowa dance theatre's mission is to raise awareness, develop appreciation, increase opportunities and support dance as a performing art within our community.

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5
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Des Moines Co Historical Society

To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties

—
7
Summer of the Arts

The mission of summer of the arts is to build community in the iowa city area, to experience, learn about, and enjoy free arts and cultural programming.

Arts & Culture
8
Central Iowa Symphony Association

Support of the Central Iowa Symphony, a local community orchestra

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9
Des Moines Performing Arts

Engage the midwest in meaningful entertainment, education, and cultural activities. provide performing arts experiences that educate, inspire and challenge.

Community Improvement
10
The Performing Arts & Education Association of Southwest Iowa Inc

To develop opportunities for the community to experience arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Alex Brown Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Des Moines Metro Hist Bldg Trust

Preserving historic buildings in des moines, iowa

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Community Playhouse; the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. 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

83 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. 83 of the 134 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/83
Grantees still filing
51/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Edmundson Art Foundation Inc: $3,844,500 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation IncSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $3,215,950 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWADES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $2,661,825 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES METRO OPERA INCDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,862,300 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $1,710,179 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSEHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION: $1,682,800 · Arts & CultureHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATIONLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $1,446,925 · Arts & CultureLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATIONBALLET DES MOINES: $1,009,980 · Arts & Culture+33 more: $7,592,413 · Arts & Culture+33 moreDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $5,150,450 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PER…+5 more: $193,235 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES MUSIC COALITION: $613,310 · OtherGREATER DES M…ST HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA: $492,500 · OtherST HISTORICAL…DES MOINES SOCIAL CLUB: $334,500 · OtherDES MOINES SO…THE CITY OF CLIVE: $206,370 · OtherBondurant-Farrar CSD: $162,275 · OtherIOWA ASIAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $400,500 · OtherIOWA ASIAN AL…IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD: $352,625 · OtherIOWA GOLD STA…+67 more: $2,271,077 · Other+67 moreGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,612,500 · EnvironmentBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $1,675,000 · AnimalsDES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $943,825 · PhilanthropyWorld Food Prize Foundation: $200,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $183,350 · Philanthropy+2 more: $17,500 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL CITY PRIDE: $321,250 · Human ServicesLATINO RESOURCES INC: $202,975 · Human Services+4 more: $23,800 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$25,026,872Community Improvement$5,343,685Other$4,833,157Environment$2,612,500Animals$1,675,000Philanthropy$1,344,675Human Services$548,025

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $5,150,450 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $3,844,500 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $3,215,950 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $2,661,825 over 9y, 10% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,612,500 over 9y, 14% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,862,300 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $1,710,179 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION: $1,682,800 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $1,675,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $1,446,925 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetBALLET DES MOINES: $1,009,980 over 9y, 17% of budgetDES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $943,825 over 9y, 15% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $764,800 over 9y, 18% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES MUSIC COALITION: $613,310 over 8y, 31% of budgetMAINFRAME STUDIOS: $581,010 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetDES MOINES FILM SOCIETY: $530,833 over 9y, 29% of budgetCULTUREALL INC: $526,400 over 9y, 19% of budgetCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES: $437,930 over 9y, 16% of budgetIOWA ARTS IN EDUCATION DBA ARTFORCE IOWA: $430,740 over 8y, 24% of budgetIOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $426,625 over 4y, 62% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $403,620 over 9y, 30% of budgetIOWA ASIAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $400,500 over 9y, 29% of budgetARTS FOR THE CITY INC: $399,750 over 9y, 33% of budgetIOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD: $352,625 over 9y, 74% of budgetDES MOINES SOCIAL CLUB: $334,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP INC: $323,700 over 8y, 11% of budgetCAPITAL CITY PRIDE: $321,250 over 5y, 15% of budgetSTAGEWEST THEATER COMPANY: $311,925 over 9y, 16% of budgetHEARTLAND YOUTH CHOIR: $275,925 over 9y, 24% of budgetWEST DES MOINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $254,825 over 9y, 20% of budgetGIRLS ROCK DES MOINES: $251,735 over 6y, 31% of budgetIHSAA ACHIEVE FOUNDATION: $247,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetLATINO RESOURCES INC: $202,975 over 8y, 68% of budgetANKENY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS: $200,200 over 9y, 16% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation: $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $183,350 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetDES MOINES GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $177,725 over 9y, 21% of budgetTALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY: $146,850 over 9y, 17% of budgetITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA: $136,775 over 8y, 43% of budgetIOWA YOUTH CHORUS: $120,925 over 9y, 12% of budgetDES MOINES YOUNG ARTISTS THEATRE: $119,770 over 9y, 19% of budgetILL MAKE ME A WORLD IN IOWA INC: $109,350 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetIOWA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $102,050 over 9y, 16% of budgetDES MOINES CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $100,075 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetIOWA EUROPEAN CULTURAL CONNECTION: $92,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetThe Des Moines Urban Experience: $90,475 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetHistoric Valley Junction Foundation: $90,260 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetGATEWAY DANCE THEATRE INC: $89,500 over 7y, 62% 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 DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BALLET DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES MUSIC COALITION ↗
  • Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CULTUREALL INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds IOWA ARTS IN EDUCATION DBA ARTFORCE IOWA ↗
  • Who funds IOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA ASIAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES SOCIAL CLUB ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL CITY PRIDE ↗
  • Who funds STAGEWEST THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND YOUTH CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds WEST DES MOINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ROCK DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds IHSAA ACHIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LATINO RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds ANKENY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES GAY MEN'S CHORUS ↗

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.

Prairie Meadows Race …Community Fdn of Grea…EMC Insurance Foundat…Golf Charitable Found…Meredith Corporation …United Way of Central…Bookey Family Foundat…The West Bancorporati…Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…Ita Group FoundationAthene Charitable Fou…Variety - the Childre…
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA131.8× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · EMC Insurance Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Meredith Corporation Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Bookey Family Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Ita Group Foundation · Athene Charitable Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa

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 Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 134 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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