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Demco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYDEN-HULL HIGH SCHOOL | $81,766 |
| SHAYLEE BEE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $10,250 |
| THE LUKE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| HULL BRIGHT START | $5,000 |
| MOC-FLOYED VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $4,000 |
| RISE SPONSORSHIP (SILVER) PLEDGE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| CLAY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GEHLEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| JUSTICE FOR ALL | $1,500 |
| LOVE INC | $1,330 |
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 (FY17–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- RMRISE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +151%
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +26%
- TLTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $250k
- BABOYDEN AREA FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Scholarship grant for students from families with income of less than 3 times the federal poverty guidelines.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
Freedom for youth offers the love of jesus christ to at-risk inner city youth and homeless young adults which empowers them to break bondages in their lives, discover their god given purpose and lead a life filled with faith, hope & love.…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The organization assists individuals and families with economic hardships.
We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…
To bring about civic betterments and social improvements by advocating for public policies that further social and racial justice, affordable health care, equitable taxation, quality education, a healthy climate, and other changes…
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…
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa
To provide guardianship and trustee services to vulnerable individuals in iowa. services also include representative payee.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Northwest Unlimited and the most unlike its peers is Western Christian High School. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 47. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 75 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 RISE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY FAIR CHARITABLE TRUST CO CLAY COUNTY FAIR ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds SHAYLA BEE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds HULL BRIGHT START INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM IN CHRIST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL NW IOWA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC ↗
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: Interstates Foundation · Vogel Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Arlan J Van Wyk Family Foundation · Premier Communications Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Vogel Charities Inc · Siouxland Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Demco Charitable 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.
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.
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