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COMMUNITY CHOICE CREDIT UNION
Support charitable organizations in the des moines area.
$56k
Granted FY2024
9
Grants
1
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Health$41kAnimals$20kRecreation & Sports$5kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$10k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$397k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ANIMAL RESUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC$20,085
- MAKE A WISH FOUNDATON OF IOWA INC$7,500
- AMERICAN HEART$6,000
- BY DEGREES FOUNDATION$5,000
- ORCHARD PLACE$5,000
- FAMILIES FORWARD$5,000
- CAN PLAY$5,000
- DES MOINES WINE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$1,600
- MERCYONE$1,220
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$39k · 4 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
2
Total granted
$39k
$5k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+10%
+34%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATON OF IOWA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue -3%
- MMERCYONE2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +10%
- AHAMERICAN HEART2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HMHOPE MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
- OCOCTAGON CENTER FOR THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Children's Museum of Oak Park
To spark curiosity in all children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
Arts & Culture
2
Midwest Dairy Association
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.
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3
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Community Improvement
4
Common Good Iowa
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.
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5
Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity
To build housing which strengthens families and transforms neighborhoods.
Housing & Shelter
6
Cascadia Health
Cascadia health delivers whole health care - integrated mental health and addiction services, primary care, and housing - to support our communities and provide hope and well-being for those we serve.
Health
7
Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma Inc
Our mission is to help people overcome challenges to employment. this is accomplished through the operation of retail stores and offering a variety of programs designed to make individuals more career ready. we also oversee programs that…
Employment
8
Museum of Latin American Art
The museum of latin american arts expands knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american and latino art through its collection, ground-breaking exhibitions, stimulating educational programs, and engaging cultural…
Arts & Culture
9
Community Action of Southeast Iowa
To serve as an advocate of the poor & elderly & to provide programs to help eliminate poverty.
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10
Greater Des Moines Partnership
Drive economic growth and talent development to advance quality of life for dsm usa with one voice, one mission, and as one region.
Community Improvement
11
University Family Physicians Inc
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.
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12
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Octagon Center for the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$40,947Animals$20,085Other$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Human Services$4,885Arts & Culture$3,680
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 ANIMAL RESUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATON OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYONE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEART ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds CAN PLAY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BY DEGREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES WINE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCTAGON CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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.
Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesIA25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · 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 organisation COMMUNITY CHOICE CREDIT UNION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAN PLAY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 461443733 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CAN PLAY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Community Choice Credit Union?
Find your warmest path to Community Choice Credit Union through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines