· Private foundation
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of DES MOINES AREA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEACON OF LIFE | $5,500 |
| HOMES OF OAKRIDGE | $5,500 |
| CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA | $5,500 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $5,500 |
| HOUSE OF MERCY | $5,500 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA | $5,500 |
| IA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTER | $5,500 |
| ANAWIM HOUSING | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $5,500 |
| GARDEN GATE RANCH | $5,500 |
| CROSS OUTREACH | $5,500 |
| ORCHARD PLACE | $5,500 |
| CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HMHOPE MINISTRIES7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +22%
- AHANAWIM HOUSING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +35%
- CICENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
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…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
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.hope - through compassion…
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
Provide compassionate services to empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence. we provide emergency shelter, advocacy, counseling, support groups, transporation and a 24/7 crisis line.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…
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.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ANAWIM HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF LIFE D/B/A THE BEACON ↗
- Who funds SCKIC Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS Outreach ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN GATE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Iowa Realty Foundation · R & R Realty Group Foundation
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 Des Moines Area Association of Realtors 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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