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Building Direction for Families Inc

Bdf is the local iowa community empowerment area and de-categorization project in buchanan, delaware and fayette counties in iowa involving local community members and early care, health and education professionals in collaborative efforts.

$655k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$157k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$948kEducation$939kCrime & Legal$453kEnvironment$272kYouth Development$66k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $581k
$57,882
Median grant
1
States reached
$734k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARENT SHARE & SUPPORT$157,499
REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$120,605
CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA$108,892
FAMILIES INC$78,176
PRESCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS$57,882
CENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTI$57,562
NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION$49,959
NORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMM ACT$10,330
HELPING SRVCS FOR YOUTH & FAM$10,278
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA: $118k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA: $109k → 10%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA: $93k → 10%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA: $89k → 10%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $32k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA: $89k → 10%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $32k → 10%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $30k → 10%FAMILIES INC: $85k → 9%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $26k → 10%FAMILIES INC: $83k → 9%HELPING SRVCS FOR YOUTH & FAM: $15k → 10%FAMILIES INC: $78k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA: $74k → 10%FAMILIES INC: $72k → 9%HELPING SRVCS FOR YOUTH & FAM: $11k → 10%FAMILIES INC: $61k → 9%FAMILIES INC: $60k → 9%HELPING SRVCS FOR YOUTH & FAM: $10k → 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.
$3.8M · 11 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$3.8M
$31k

Still filing today

73%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • PS
    PARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $729k · revenue +5% · 84% of their budget
  • EP
    EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $572k · revenue +25%
  • CI
    CENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $453k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • IC
    INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTR
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • JC
    JESUP COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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2
Compass Pointe

Provide counseling and education for the prevention of alcohol and drug related problems to the residents of northwest iowa.

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3
Iowa Aces 360

To improve the health and well-being of all by empowering communities, organizations, and people to take informed actions to prevent and mitigate the lifelong effects of childhood adversity.

Health
4
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal
5
Family Crisis Centers Inc

Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.

Human Services
6
Apple Daycare Inc

Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.

Human Services
7
Iowa Skilled Trades

Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa

Education
8
East Mills Child Care Solutions

The organization was created to own the property and operate a childcare facility serving the east mills community school district and the surrounding areas.

Human Services
9
Alliance for a Better Iowa

To bring about civic betterments and social improvements by advocating for public policies that further social and racial justice, affordable health care, equitable taxation, quality education, a healthy climate, and other changes…

Civil Rights
10
Iowa Center for Children's Justice

ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.

Civil Rights
11
Niad Center for Human Development Inc

The mission of crisis intervention service (cis) is to provide persons affected by domestic violence, sexual assault and homicide with professional, confidential, 24-hour services including safety and support and to prevent violence in our…

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12
Crisis Intervention Services Inc

Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Fayette Valley Community Coalition. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC: $729,258 · OtherPARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INCDELAWARE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $646,851 · OtherDELAWARE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALCENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER: $452,992 · OtherCENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERPRESCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS: $335,482 · OtherPRESCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPSOPERATION THRESHOLD INC: $272,439 · OtherOPERATION THRESHOLD INC+3 more: $61,533 · OtherEXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC: $571,720 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INCFAMILIES INC: $439,101 · Human ServicesFAMILIES INCNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $219,227 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP+1 more: $35,881 · Human ServicesNORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION: $79,515 · Health
Other$2,498,555Human Services$1,265,929Health$79,515

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 budgetPARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC: $729,258 over 6y, 84% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC: $571,720 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER: $452,992 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILIES INC: $439,101 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetOPERATION THRESHOLD INC: $272,439 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $219,227 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION: $79,515 over 3y, 33% of budgetHELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $35,881 over 3y, 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 PARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION THRESHOLD INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES 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 Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · 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 Building Direction for Families Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building Direction for Families Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 13 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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