· Public charity
Burlington W Burlington Area United Way
To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of BURLINGTON W BURLINGTON AREA UNITED WAY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $263,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $272,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $45,000 |
| BURLINGTON HOMELESS SHELTER | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA | $40,000 |
| BURLINGTON AREA YMCA | $30,500 |
| HOPE HAVEN AREA DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $30,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WES | $20,000 |
| YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES | $18,000 |
| HOMESTEAD 1839 | $16,250 |
| ALCOHOL & DRUG DEPENDENCY | $10,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | $7,500 |
| TRANSITIONS | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $559k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BABURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $347k · revenue +27%
- HHHOPE HAVEN AREA DEVELOPMENT CENTER CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +15%
- BABURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TNTHE NESTone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
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.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
Prevent criminal activity and reduce populations in correctional facilities by treatment, education and counseling to persons with addictions, which often result in criminal behavior.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
Offering help for today and inspiring hope for tomorrow through outstanding personalized care, support and education.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Provide counseling and education for the prevention of alcohol and drug related problems to the residents of northwest iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Greater Burlington Area Crime Stoppers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 BURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN AREA DEVELOPMENT CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL & DRUG DEPENDENCY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON AREA CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Transitions DMC Inc ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation · John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust · Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation · 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 Burlington W Burlington Area United Way 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.