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Csb Foundation

Promoting philanthropy by 1) supporting nonprofit organizations; 2) making grants to qualified nonprofits; 3) holding and investing funds for the benefit of nonprofit organizations including donor advised funds; 4) general education to the public about charitable giving and estate planning.

$693k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$400kEducation$197kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$107kHuman Services$100kReligion$93kRecreation & Sports$36kHealth$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $673,577, the rows itemized in this filing. The $693,487 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,910 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$21,667
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF MOUNT AYR$400,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$109,910
PRINCESS THEATER TROUPE INC$55,000
RINGGOLD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$30,000
IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION$21,667
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS$20,000
CLAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO$15,000
NEW LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH$12,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $50k → 13%RINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $50k → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 6 repeat orgs$671k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$293k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+231%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RC
    RINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue -36%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +33%
  • DM
    DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $52k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORWALK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $105k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue -9%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Iowa West Foundation
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2
Iowa Rugby Collective Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
4
Iowa Pharmacy Association Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
6
Keokuk County Fair

To provide a county fair for rural iowa

—
7
Dallas County Fair Foundation

Raise funds to support the dallas county fair association; provide fundraising efforts to improve the infrastructure and programming provided to the residents of dallas county iowa.

Public Benefit
8
Iowa Sports Expo Group Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Des Moines Golf and Country Club Educational Foundation
—
10
Technology Association of Iowa Education Foundation
Community Improvement
11
Friends From Iowa Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Pta Iowa Congress

Iowa PTA group for a Newton Iowa Community School

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MOUNT AYR: $400,000 · OtherCITY OF MOUNT AYRNORWALK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $104,955 · OtherNORWALK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTNEW LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF SERGEANT BLUFF IOWA: $23,000 · OtherRINGGOLD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $24,149 · Other+8 more: $93,350 · Other+8 moreMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $109,910 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STAN…RINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesRINGGOLD C…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $66,000 · EducationPRINCESS THEATER TROUPE INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $52,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Religion
Other$675,454Philanthropy$109,910Human Services$100,000Education$66,000Arts & Culture$55,000Community Improvement$52,000Religion$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $109,910 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $66,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCESS THEATER TROUPE INC: $55,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetRINGGOLD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $24,149 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRINGGOLD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetPTA IOWA CONGRESS CLAY ELEMENTARY PTA: $15,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $6,100 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Fdn of Grea…South Central Iowa Co…First Interstate Banc…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · South Central Iowa Community Founda · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Csb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Csb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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