· Private foundation
Demco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| RISE SPONSORSHIP (SILVER) PLEDGE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 75 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 HULL BRIGHT START INC ↗
- Who funds Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Demco Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Demco Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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