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Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$760k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.6MHealth$929kRecreation & Sports$424kArts & Culture$264kAnimals$171kYouth Development$125kHuman Services$110kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION$250,000
MANHATTAN COLLEGE$200,000
BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION$150,000
STRANDS OF STRENGTH INC$45,750
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$21,052
MERCYONE DES MOINES FOUNDATION$20,000
ABOVE & BEYOND CANCER$10,500
HIGHLANDS CHURCH$10,000
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HOPE$10,000
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY IN IOWA$7,250
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS (SCES)$7,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$3,000
GENESIS YOUTH FOUNDATION$2,500
ARIZONA MUSICFEST$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $2k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $1k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 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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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 33 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
19

Total granted

$3.3M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+34%

Still filing today

76%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $404k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • IS
    IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $400k · revenue +76%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $382k · revenue +22%
  • IH
    IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • EF
    EVERYSTEP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • GO
    GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +73%
  • CF
    CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +81%

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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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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2
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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3
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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4
Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote and develop the visitors and convention industry in the greater des moines area and to encourage the utilization of facilities for visitors and conventions.

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5
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

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…

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8
Minnesota State Fair Foundation

The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.

Philanthropy
9
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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10
Iowa Medical Society

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

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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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Des Moines Water Works Park Foundation

The des moines water works park foundation is dedicated to developing and executing the master plan created for water works park. the plan turns the park into a national model incorporating recreation, education and conservation within the…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. 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 backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AssistancePerforming Arts Organizatio…Iowa Industry & Professiona…Senior Residential CareFamily Support & Recovery S…
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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%7%<5yr13%5%5–10yr15%14%10–20yr11%26%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr32%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr15%5%10–20yr11%33%20–35yr9%20%35–55yr32%42%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
3,292/26,320

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

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Manhattan University — $1,200,000 · EducationManhattan UniversityIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $382,345 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+2 more — $1,750 · EducationBLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $206,000 · OtherBLANK CHILDREN'S HO…IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION JOHN STODDARD CANCER CENTER — $127,000 · OtherIOWA HEALTH FOUNDAT…MERCYONE DES MOINES FOUNDATION — $102,000 · OtherMERCYONE DES MOINES…LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HOPE — $40,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF …HIGHLANDS CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $27,102 · OtherEVERYSTEP FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Other+26 more — $69,950 · Other+26 moreIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $326,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOU…STRANDS OF STRENGTH INC — $112,550 · HealthSTRANDS OF STRE…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $75,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD…+3 more — $14,500 · HealthIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Recreation & SportsIOWA STATE F…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS — $14,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,250 · Recreation & SportsGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $15,470 · Arts & CultureBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · AnimalsGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · AnimalsArizona Humane Society — $18,350 · Animals+2 more — $2,000 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $119,400 · Youth Development
Education$1,584,095Other$652,052Health$528,550Recreation & Sports$416,750Arts & Culture$265,470Animals$195,350Youth Development$119,400

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 budgetManhattan University — $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $382,345 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $326,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $119,400 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSTRANDS OF STRENGTH INC — $112,550 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $75,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $27,102 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $18,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS — $14,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST DES MOINES COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER — $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES WINE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $3,270 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Dressage Association — $2,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLIPSIS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DRESSAGE FEDERATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLitShop — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST DES MOINES FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — $250 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Meredith Corporation …Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …The Merchants Bonding…Ita Group FoundationBookey Family Foundat…The West Bancorporati…EMC Insurance Foundat…R & R Realty Group Fo…Gartner Family Founda…William C Knapp Chari…Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…
Meredith Corporation FoundationIA40× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meredith Corporation Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · R & R Realty Group Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust

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 Deb & Bob Pulver 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Deb & Bob Pulver 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.

    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 60 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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