· Private foundation
Cole-Belin Education 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 $10k28 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELIN-BLANK CENTER | $75,000 |
| CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCATION | $25,000 |
| LIVING HISTORY FARMS | $20,000 |
| VOTERPUNCH | $10,000 |
| 1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA | $10,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER | $7,000 |
| IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA | $5,000 |
| COMMON GOOD IOWA | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWA | $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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LHLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +18%
- 1F1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +118% · 29% of their budget
- SCSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- GDGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +266%
- MSMAINFRAME STUDIOSone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
- NNURTURINGSone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14% · 26% of their budget
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.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Citizenship Counts. 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 37 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 66 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 LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITIZEN ACTION NETWORK EDUC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds COMMON GOOD IOWA ↗
- Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds NURTURINGS ↗
- Who funds IOWA POLICY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION ↗
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: Iowa Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · United Way of Central Iowa
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 Cole-Belin Education 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Cole-Belin Education Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Cole-Belin Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.