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Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,200
Organizations funded a year
14 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$850k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$78k0%
FY202414$77k7%
FY202314$77k7%
FY202215$78k33%
FY202114$75k0%
FY202015$75k7%
FY201915$75k7%
FY201814$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$232kHuman Services$121kHealth$87kYouth Development$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anawim Housing Inc$41,20080%
Central Iowa Shelter & Services$41,20080%
Hope Ministries$41,20080%
Orchard Place$41,20080%
Children and Families of Iowa$41,20080%
House of Mercy$41,20080%
Beacon of Life D/B/A the Beacon$26,20051%
SCKIC Inc$25,20051%
Youth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa$25,00045%
CROSS Outreach$21,20042%
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All grantees of Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anawim Housing Inc$41,20080%
Central Iowa Shelter & Services$41,20080%
Hope Ministries$41,20080%
Orchard Place$41,20080%
Children and Families of Iowa$41,20080%
House of Mercy$41,20080%
Beacon of Life D/B/A the Beacon$26,20051%
SCKIC Inc$25,20051%
Youth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa$25,00045%
CROSS Outreach$21,20042%
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc$21,20040%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,00040%
Garden Gate Ranch Inc$16,20031%
Ellipsis Inc$15,00030%
Families Forward$10,70020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnawim Housing Inc: $41,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Iowa Shelter & Services: $41,200 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHope Ministries: $41,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOrchard Place: $41,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren and Families of Iowa: $41,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Mercy: $41,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBeacon of Life D/B/A the Beacon: $26,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSCKIC Inc: $25,200 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYouth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa: $25,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCROSS Outreach: $21,200 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLutheran Services in Iowa Inc: $21,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Gate Ranch Inc: $16,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEllipsis Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies Forward: $10,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA32.2× affinity13 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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation

How much does Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation give?
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $78,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (44%), Human Services (23%), Health (17%).
Who are Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Anawim Housing Inc ($41k), Central Iowa Shelter & Services ($41k), Hope Ministries ($41k).
Does Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include 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.
Where is Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation based?
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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