· Private foundation
Citizens First National Bank Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Storm Lake Comm School | $10,000 |
| Storm Lake Police Dept | $2,200 |
| Heartland Counseling Services | $2,000 |
| Buena Vista Co Sheriff's Office | $1,900 |
| Friends of Storm Lake Public Library | $1,500 |
| Council Against Abuse & Sexual Assault | $1,500 |
| Plains Area Mental Health | $1,500 |
| Storm Lake Public Library | $1,500 |
| Seasons CenterAutumn's Center | $1,000 |
| Upper Des Moines Opportunity | $1,000 |
| St Mary's Catholic School | $1,000 |
| Buena Vista Co Healthcare Foundation | $1,000 |
| Sheriffs Reserve Officer Association | $900 |
| Storm Lake Fire Dept | $650 |
| Lakeside Presbyterian Church | $400 |
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 (FY18–21, $820) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- BVBUENA VISTA REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +76%
- UDUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +31%
Buena Vista University2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SLStorm Lake High School Trap Team2× · 2017–2018 · $750
- ASAll Saints Episcopal Church2× · 2021–2022 · $700
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.
Mental health care to those in need
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…
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Cherishing life's journey through an extraordinary commitment to compassion, comfort and holistic care.
To provide the highest practical resident care 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, accomplished through the efforts of our dedicated staff, the help of volunteers, the support of families and the involvement of the community.
St. luke's lutheran care center provides elderly and handicapped people with housing facilities and services and is specially designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of the residents and to contribute to their…
The mission of united presbyterian home, guided by christian compassion, concern and stewardship, is to provide seniors with quality services, care and housing.
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.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
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.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Laborers With Christ. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 10% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 100 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.
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Citizens First National Bank 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.