· Community foundation
Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc
The Organization's purpose is to administer various charitable funds, including funds received from the State of Iowa to be used for the benefit of the citizens of Carroll and Sac counties.
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 26 grants below total $374,585 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $397,966 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,381 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 $10k13 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $282k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Sac City IA | $43,067 |
| Sac County IA | $37,118 |
| Coon Rapids Bayard Comm Schoo | $34,344 |
| City of Early IA | $25,000 |
| Sac County Fair Board | $24,250 |
| Manning Betterment Foundation | $22,500 |
| City of Lidderdale | $21,500 |
| New Hope Village Foundation | $20,000 |
| City of Lake View IA | $14,162 |
| City of Dedham IA | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post # 607 | $10,000 |
| Animal Rescue League of Carro | $10,000 |
| Breda Day Care Center | $10,000 |
| City of Odebolt IA | $8,544 |
| City of Manning | $8,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- CACARROLL AREA CHILD CARE CENTER AND PRESCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +8%
- SCSAC COUNTY FAIR BOARD5× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +136%
- NHNEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MRMat Rats Wrestling Clubone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -22% · 46% of their budget
- COCity of Nemaha IAone grant, 2022 · $19k
- DFDMACC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +151%
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.
All contributions are used to restore and maintain the chicago and northwestern railroad depot in carroll, ia
The Organization's purpose is to administer various charitable funds, including funds received from the State of Iowa to be used for the benefit of the citizens of Carroll and Sac counties. The Organization administers and grows various…
Maintenance and restoration of all catholic church buildings in carroll county, iowa
Support & promote sac city, ia
The mission of the community foundation of carroll county is to maintain and enhance the quality of life in the community of carroll county through philanthropic means.
Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.
Provide service to the casey area.
Community betterment, enhancement, quality of life, cardinal christmas baskets, cardinal festival, fire station, park improvements, etc
Promote the community's (that being marshalltown, iowa) economic development and the revitalization and historic preservation of the downtown.
To benefit the communitys economic vitality by identifying, developing and funding projects which will grow and sustain the Stanton, Iowa community.
The purpose of the Central Point Parks & Recreation Foundation Inc. is to acquire assets through grants donations and fundraising to be used by the City of Central Point for public park and recreation purposes along with downtown and open…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manning Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Angels Forever Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 58 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 COON RAPIDS BAYARD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT VEBA TRUST ↗
- Who funds Carroll Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARROLL AREA CHILD CARE CENTER AND PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAC COUNTY FAIR BOARD ↗
- Who funds St Anthony Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNING BETTERMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carroll Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA BETTERMENT DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SAC COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kellans Kingdom ↗
- Who funds Mat Rats Wrestling Club ↗
- Who funds MANNING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIL WILDCAT EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DMACC 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: Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust · Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation · Iowa State Bank Charitable Foundation · Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · 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 Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc 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.