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Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp

We, catholic health initiatives - iowa, corp.

$8.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4.2M
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.

Health$392MHuman Services$1.1MRecreation & Sports$895kCommunity Improvement$848kReligion$308kPublic Benefit$101kPhilanthropy$76kEnvironment$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $6,903,042, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,217,761 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,314,719 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.5M
$20,870
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSE OF MERCY$4,150,665
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC$2,093,998
PRINCIPAL CHARITY CLASSIC$250,000
GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP$131,250
COUNTY OF POLK IOWA$94,908
HEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC$37,500
UNITYPOINT HEALTH$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$20,870
RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF IOWA$20,000
INNOVATIVEVENTS INC$19,500
10-15 TRANSIT$16,627
CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES$8,496
HOPE MINISTRIES$8,496
DISCOVER HOPE 517$5,732
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $20k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $18k → 5%RATHBUN LAKE AREA YMCA: $20k → 14%Innervisions Healthcare: $10k → 5%Innervisions Healthcare: $10k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $8k → 5%On With Life Foundation: $10k → 10%On With Life Foundation: $5k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $14k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IA
OH
MO
KY
VA
TX
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$395M · 42 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
21

Total granted

$395M
$531k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+8%

Still filing today

83%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PH
    PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +75%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF MERCY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +13% · 53% of their budget
  • MM
    MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - CENTERVILLE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • MM
    MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue -1%
  • BD
    BISHOP DRUMM RETIREMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $66k
  • IH
    IOWA HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -6%
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.

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Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp

We, catholic health initiatives - iowa, corp. and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. catholic health initiatives - iowa, corp. is a member…

Health
2
Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
3
Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp

We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health services-iowa is a member of trinity health.

Health
4
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
5
Iowa Health Foundation

Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.

Health
6
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.

Health
7
Genesis Health System

We, genesis health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
8
Covenant Medical Center Inc

We, covenant medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. covenant medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Grinnell Regional Medical Center

Grinnell regional medical center's mission is dedication to health care for life through genuine care and compassion for the health and well-being of patients, families and the communities grinnell regional medical center is privileged to…

Health
10
Central Community Hospital

Central community hospital's mission is to serve with fidelity to the gospel as a compassionate, healing ministry of jesus christ to transform the health of our communities.

Health
11
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
12
Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City Foundation

We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy medical center - sioux city foundation is a member of mercy…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Health System; the most unlike its peers is Simon Estes 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

57 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. 57 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
38/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY CLINICS INC: $333,391,746 · HealthMERCY CLINICS INCMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA: $19,947,111 · HealthPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC: $18,190,433 · HealthHOUSE OF MERCY: $15,400,665 · Health+23 more: $5,191,357 · HealthTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $934,551 · OtherGREATER DES MOINES COMMITTEE: $245,850 · OtherCATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $244,650 · OtherDes Moines Marathon: $160,000 · OtherPOLK COUNTY IOWA: $101,408 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DES MOINES: $88,687 · Other+24 more: $500,239 · OtherGOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $725,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $29,203 · PhilanthropyGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $419,542 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $75,000 · Community Improvement6TH AVENUE CORRIDOR INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS: $219,167 · ReligionTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $65,000 · Human ServicesRATHBUN LAKE AREA YOUNG MENS CHRIST: $20,000 · Human ServicesON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTRIES: $8,496 · Human ServicesBRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC: $59,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$392,121,312Other$2,275,385Philanthropy$754,203Community Improvement$554,542Religion$219,167Human Services$121,996Arts & Culture$79,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY CLINICS INC: $333,391,746 over 7y, 27% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA: $19,947,111 over 3y, 75% of budgetPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC: $18,190,433 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY: $15,400,665 over 7y, 53% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER - CENTERVILLE: $3,467,603 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $934,551 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $725,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $515,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $419,542 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON: $300,022 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $244,650 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS: $219,167 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetHEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC: $152,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSTRANDS OF STRENGTH INC: $120,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $75,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $67,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $65,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budget6TH AVENUE CORRIDOR INC: $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC: $59,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $52,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND: $42,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER: $35,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBras for the Cause Iowa Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA HEALTH SYSTEM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWANS FOR LIFE INC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetIOWA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAN PLAY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSERVE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES: $8,496 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES: $8,496 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONIOWA CHAPTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS-IOWA INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON ESTES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

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 Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …Ita Group FoundationUnited Way of Central…Alliant Energy Founda…Golf Charitable Found…Pella Rolscreen Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…Central Iowa Hospital…R & R Realty Group Fo…The West Bancorporati…EMC Insurance Foundat…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA43.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Ita Group Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Central Iowa Hospital Corporation · R & R Realty Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance 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 Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 72 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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