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City of Ottumwa Iowa Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

City of Ottumwa Iowa Trust

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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$55kArts & Culture$44kCommunity Improvement$30kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,961
Median grant
1
States reached
$338k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAIN STREET OTTUMWA$7,600
BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC$5,961
OTTUMWA AREA ARTS COUNCIL$3,250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%CITY OF OTTUMWA: $19k → 16%CITY OF OTTUMWA: $18k → 16%CITY OF OTTUMWA: $17k → 16%MAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $14k → 16%CITY OF OTTUMWA: $10k → 16%BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $10k → 16%BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $8k → 16%OTTUMWA AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $8k → 16%MAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $8k → 16%MAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $8k → 16%OTTUMWA PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $6k → 16%BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $4k → 16%OTTUMWA AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $4k → 16%OTTUMWA AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $3k → 16%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 5 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $64,652 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $29,766 · OtherMAIN STREET OTTUMWAOTTUMWA AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $15,250 · OtherOTTUMWA AREA ARTS COUNCILBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $28,424 · Arts & CultureBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INCOTTUMWA PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$109,668Arts & Culture$28,424Recreation & Sports$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $29,766 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $28,424 over 4y, 5.3% 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.

  • Who funds MAIN STREET OTTUMWA ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OTTUMWA PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Ottumwa Regional Lega…
Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation IncIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc

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 City of Ottumwa Iowa Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City of Ottumwa Iowa Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 5 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-PF 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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