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Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn

The community foundation of greater des moines improves the quality of life for all by promoting charitable giving, connecting donors with causes they care about and providing leadership on important community issues .

$85M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,259
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$7.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1259 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1,259 grants below total $55,679,468 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $84,694,702 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,015,234 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k338 grants · $2.4M
  • $10k–50k709 grants · $13M
  • $50k–250k185 grants · $17M
  • $250k+27 grants · $24M
$12,889
Median grant
34
States reached
$919M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST IOWA$7,339,995
SPIRIT OF OKOBOJI$3,050,000
SPIRIT OF OKOBOJI$2,100,000
UNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$1,018,847
DOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$1,000,000
GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION - CO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT - ATTN GIFT ACCOUNTING$1,000,000
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS$500,000
CATHOLIC TUITION ORGANIZATION$415,000
YOURCAUSE LLC - ATTN YC FUNDING PAYMENTS COE$403,650
SPIRIT OF OKOBOJI$400,000
YOURCAUSE LLC - ATTN YC FUNDING PAYMENTS COE$388,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE BOONE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$333,843
DES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION$333,333
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL SOUTHWEST IOWA INC: $220k → 10%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $100k → 40%CAMP FOSTER YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $157k → 7%YMCA OF THE OKOBOJIS: $100k → 7%QUAKERDALE: $110k → 11%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $100k → 12%BUILDING FAMILIES: $190k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $100k → 5%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $250k → 17%HOPE MINISTRIES: $500k → 10%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES OF STORY COUNTY: $179k → 17%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $100k → 17%WINGS OF REFUGE: $100k → 17%CAPITAL CITY PRIDE DES MOINES: $125k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $250k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $200k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $200k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $180k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $175k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $115k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $110k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $100k → 10%IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTERS: $100k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $100k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%LCS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTERS: $100k → 10%ORCHARD PLACE FOUNDATION: $350k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $250k → 10%COMMUNITY SUPPORT ADVOCATES: $422k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $132k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $237k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $150k → 10%SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $118k → 10%SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $118k → 10%SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $118k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $100k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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FL

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$374M · 1310 repeat orgs$29M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

1310 repeat relationships — 469 still active in FY2024, 841 since wound down; 142 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1310
508

Total granted

$374M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+8%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $11M · revenue +22% · 88% of their budget
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +20%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $9.6M · revenue +77% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • DD
    DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9.0M · revenue +79%
  • CP
    CATHOLIC PASTORAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.1M
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -40%

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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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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2
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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3
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
4
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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5
Community Foundation for Western Iowa

The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
7
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.

Housing & Shelter
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The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…

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10
Iowa Center Loan Fund

The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…

Community Improvement
11
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
12
Iowa City Downtown Self Supported Municipal Improvement District

Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lead Dsm and the most unlike its peers is 360 Select Sports. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…School District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsImmigrant Worker SupportLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportChristian Missionary Organi…School Parent OrganizationsAffordable Housing Construc…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Food PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Mentoring ProgramsChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Social ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Developmental Disabilities …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterDomestic Violence ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development CentersPregnancy Support ServicesYmca Youth DevelopmentLocal History MuseumsSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%6%<5yr9%9%5–10yr14%20%10–20yr12%24%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr39%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%2%<5yr9%7%5–10yr14%11%10–20yr12%20%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr39%39%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%36/2,372
the rest of the field
6%
1,676/26,833

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.

04the grantee network

1205 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. 1205 of the 2,000 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.

150
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
332
Early backer (in before they grew)
1153/1205
Grantees still filing
785/1205
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $13,770,025 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWAGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA — $10,900,405 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWACATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST IOWA — $10,527,371 · OtherCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST IOWACITY OF WEST DES MOINES — $10,494,027 · OtherCITY OF WEST DES MOINESCATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES — $9,646,301 · OtherCATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIESTHE SPIRIT OF OKOBOJI — $7,606,785 · Other+105 more — $115,910,857 · Other+105 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $9,879,380 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSI…DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $5,525,520 · EducationDES MOINES CHR…STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $4,610,137 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSI…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,816,400 · EducationKANSAS STATE U…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,164,069 · EducationGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY — $1,600,856 · EducationDALLAS CENTER-GRIMES EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,452,036 · EducationDMACC FOUNDATION — $1,451,909 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $1,430,150 · Education+13 more — $10,347,206 · Education+13 moreEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $5,078,298 · Arts & CultureEdmundson A…DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC — $3,044,987 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES …HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION — $2,892,207 · Arts & CultureHOYT SHERMA…BRENTON ARBORETUM INC — $2,614,008 · Arts & CultureBRENTON ARB…SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA — $2,462,764 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CEN…GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $2,233,798 · Arts & CultureGREATER DES…MAINFRAME STUDIOS — $2,098,901 · Arts & CultureMAINFRAME S…DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,798,618 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES …DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $1,347,991 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $1,260,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $7,299,052 · Arts & Culture+13 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $9,093,246 · PhilanthropyCLARINDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,993,420 · PhilanthropyGOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $2,649,055 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $2,604,270 · PhilanthropyWorld Food Prize Foundation — $1,224,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $1,209,737 · PhilanthropyWIESE FOUNDATION — $856,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $2,623,444 · PhilanthropyDELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $8,951,450 · HealthORCHARD PLACE — $2,528,503 · HealthBRIDGES OF IOWA — $2,475,018 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,573,706 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $1,345,001 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $1,226,065 · HealthUNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,018,847 · HealthABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC — $807,149 · Health+3 more — $1,511,103 · HealthCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,529,248 · Human ServicesLCS FOUNDATION — $1,931,464 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $1,862,321 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $1,852,280 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTRIES — $1,236,040 · Human ServicesCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc — $871,773 · Human ServicesDES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — $787,604 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $714,415 · Human ServicesORCHARD PLACE FOUNDATION — $597,209 · Human Services+8 more — $3,529,552 · Human ServicesGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $8,548,385 · AnimalsBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $5,660,879 · AnimalsFOUNDATION FOR THE BOONE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $753,922 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC — $723,273 · Animals
Other$178,855,771Education$41,277,663Arts & Culture$32,130,624Philanthropy$23,253,672Health$21,436,842Human Services$15,911,906Animals$15,686,459

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $13,770,025 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA — $10,900,405 over 6y, 88% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $9,879,380 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES — $9,646,301 over 7y, 93% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $9,093,246 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $8,548,385 over 8y, 27% of budgetTHE SPIRIT OF OKOBOJI — $7,606,785 over 5y, 100% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $5,660,879 over 7y, 19% of budgetDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $5,525,520 over 6y, 19% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS — $5,162,857 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetIOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $5,090,000 over 4y, 93% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $5,078,298 over 7y, 21% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $4,610,137 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetINVEST DSM — $4,261,250 over 2y, 40% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC — $3,044,987 over 8y, 16% of budgetCLARINDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,993,420 over 5y, 74% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN — $2,948,683 over 7y, 21% of budgetHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION — $2,892,207 over 7y, 45% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,816,400 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES — $2,813,340 over 8y, 31% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $2,787,634 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $2,722,134 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetGOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $2,649,055 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetBRENTON ARBORETUM INC — $2,614,008 over 7y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $2,604,270 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,529,248 over 8y, 13% of budgetORCHARD PLACE — $2,528,503 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetBRIDGES OF IOWA — $2,475,018 over 8y, 47% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA — $2,462,764 over 8y, 10% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING INC — $2,263,302 over 8y, 12% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $2,233,798 over 8y, 51% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,164,069 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $2,163,889 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMAINFRAME STUDIOS — $2,098,901 over 8y, 23% of budgetLCS FOUNDATION — $1,931,464 over 7y, 58% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $1,862,321 over 7y, 10% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $1,852,280 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,798,618 over 8y, 16% of budgetBRICKER PRICE BLOCK RESTORATION CORPORATION — $1,779,657 over 6y, 36% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,707,921 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $1,688,880 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetDES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION — $1,680,218 over 7y, 58% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $1,664,446 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME — $1,621,527 over 7y, 35% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY — $1,600,856 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,573,706 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetDALLAS CENTER-GRIMES EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,452,036 over 4y, 25% of budgetDMACC FOUNDATION — $1,451,909 over 7y, 30% of budget
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SPIRIT OF OKOBOJI ↗
  • Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds IOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INVEST DSM ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARINDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds BRENTON ARBORETUM INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds ANAWIM HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗

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.

Prairie Meadows Race …United Way of Central…Bravo Greater Des Moi…Golf Charitable Found…The West Bancorporati…Variety - the Childre…EMC Insurance Foundat…Chrysalis FoundationDelta Dental of Iowa …South Central Iowa Co…Mid-Iowa Health Found…Ita Group Foundation
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA189.3× affinity321 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · EMC Insurance Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · South Central Iowa Community Founda · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Ita Group 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 Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn 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
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no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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