· Public charity
Casey's Charities Inc
The primary purpose of the corporation is to raise funds from members of the general public in order to make grants to other organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and that are classified as public charities under internal revenue code section 509.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Casey's Charities Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Community Fdn Of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Casey's Charities Inc named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $1,581,041 |
| CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS | $704,668 |
| HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS | $704,668 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $92,545 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $21,341 |
| WILDWOOD HILLS RANCH | $10,000 |
| YOUTH HOMES OF MID-AMERICA | $5,250 |
| MOSAIC | $5,000 |
| IJAG | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $635k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
Feeding America2× · 2020–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +40%- COChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation3× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +194%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2017–2022 · $635k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2.2M · revenue +38%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $41k
- GDGREATER DSM HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Junior achievement empowers young people to own their economic success. in partnerships with business and educators, junior achievement brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential and preparing them for the…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 39 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 90 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 Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds JENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS FOR CHRISTIAN ED INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA 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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Lsb Foundation · United Way Worldwide · John Ruan Foundation Trust
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 Casey's Charities 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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