· Public charity
Chrysalis Foundation
Chrysalis invests in the safety, security, education, and economic empowerment of girls and women in greater des moines.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $265,498 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $311,155 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,657 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BONDURANT-FARRAR COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $24,900 |
| DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $22,000 |
| EYESOPENIOWA | $17,548 |
| CANPLAY SPORTS | $16,850 |
| HOLY FAMILY INNER CITY YOUTH FOUNDATION | $8,450 |
| URBANDALE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $8,300 |
| BRODY PTO | $8,300 |
| MERRILL MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA | $8,300 |
| CALLANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA | $8,300 |
| MCCOMBS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA | $8,300 |
| CARLISLE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO | $8,300 |
| CRISIS INTERVENTION & ADVOCACY CENTER | $8,250 |
| SAFE CENTER OF IOWA | $5,500 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $5,350 |
| WAUKEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +23%
- WLWE LIFT JOB SEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +66%
- FFFAMILIES FORWARD9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- RIREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +45%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWAone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -43%
- DJDOWLING-ST JOSEPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INVESTMENT CO LLCone grant, 2020 · $9k
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.
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.
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.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Freedom for youth offers the love of jesus christ to at-risk inner city youth and homeless young adults which empowers them to break bondages in their lives, discover their god given purpose and lead a life filled with faith, hope & love.…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Immigration counseling and advocacy for minority senior citizens
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.
Turn fear into confidence by meeting the real needs of women and men and providing strength for life's tough choices.
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.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children and Families of Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Girls Rock Des Moines. 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 30 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 89 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 HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL INNER-CITY YOUTH FDN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WE LIFT JOB SEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CONCEPTS ↗
- Who funds CAN PLAY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION & ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Future Net Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF LIFE D/B/A THE BEACON ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALTOONA COMM SERVICE CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC ↗
- Who funds BY DEGREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST DES MOINES COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC ↗
- Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds URBANDALE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PRELUDE BEHAVIORAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION ↗
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: United Way of Central Iowa · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · GreenState Credit Union · Lsb 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 Chrysalis Foundation 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.