How much did DES MOINES AREA ASSOCIATION OF grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of DES MOINES AREA ASSOCIATION OF’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

homelessness

2023

homelessness

2024

homelessness

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,500

Median grant

States reached

$769k

Total assets

Largest grants

ANAWIM HOUSING$5,500
ORCHARD PLACE$5,500
FAMILIES FORWARD$5,500
LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA$5,500
CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES$5,500
IA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTER$5,500
GARDEN GATE RANCH$5,500
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA$5,500
HOPE MINISTRIES$5,500
CROSS OUTREACH$5,500
BEACON OF LIFE$5,500
HOUSE OF MERCY$5,500
HOMES OF OAKRIDGE$5,500
ELLIPSIS IOWA$5,500

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$511k · 20 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$511k

$10k

Still filing today

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

HM
HOPE MINISTRIES
7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +26%
CI
CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES
7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +207%
AH
ANAWIM HOUSING
7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +30%

Funded once

SA
SALVATION ARMY
one grant, 2022 · $5k
GG
GOLDEN GATE RANCH
one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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Siouxland Habitat for Humanity

To provide affordable housing for low-income families

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Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter

Exodus Housing

To serve diverse households fleeing domestic violence with equitable, client-centered services that are inclusive, foster long-term self-sufficiency and promote access to permanent housing and community resources.

Housing & Shelter

Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

Solutions to Homelessness Through transitional housing Permanent housing and assitant counseling

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Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity

To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.

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Harvest Home Inc

Harvest Home transforms the lives of homeless, pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers.

Human Services

Family Promise of the Chippewa

Serve families who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, by providing resources in the areas of emergency assistance, stabilization and prevention.

Human Services

Path of Life Ministries

Path of life ministries (polm) is a non-profit organization serving homeless individuals and families with the goal to rescue, restore, and rebuild lives. polm provides emergency shelter and transitional housing with wrap around services…

Religion

Elijah Family Homes

Elijah family homes provides stable housing and support services for families seeking recovery.

Housing & Shelter

New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Iowa Shelter & Services and the most unlike its peers is Garden Gate Ranch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

8/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$283,500Human Services$88,000Health$87,000Housing & Shelter$57,000Philanthropy$11,000

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.

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 Track and CasinoIA28.7× affinity11 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 · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Gartner Family Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Beasley Family Foundation Inc · The John R and Zelda Z Grubb · Violet G Young Charitable 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 organisation DES MOINES AREA ASSOCIATION OF 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CROSS OUTREACH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832057712 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CROSS OUTREACH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Des Moines Area Association Of?

Find your warmest path to Des Moines Area Association Of through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DES MOINES AREA ASSOCIATION OF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Des Moines Area Association Of?

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DES MOINES AREA ASSOCIATION OF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Des Moines Area Association Of?

More from the funding graph