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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$850k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES OF OAKRIDGE$5,200
LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA$5,200
DOROTHY'S HOUSE$5,200
HOPE MINISTRIES$5,200
BEACON OF LIFE$5,200
GARDEN GATE RANCH$5,200
ORCHARD PLACE$5,200
CROSS OUTREACH$5,200
CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES$5,200
HOUSE OF MERCY$5,200
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA$5,200
ANAWIM HOUSING$5,200
FAMILIES FORWARD$5,200
Individual grant recipient$5,200
IA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTER$5,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $129k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $5k → 10%CROSS OUTREACH: $6k → 10%CROSS OUTREACH: $6k → 10%CROSS OUTREACH: $5k → 10%RED CROSS: $5k → 10%RED CROSS: $5k → 10%RED CROSS: $5k → 10%CROSS OUTREACH: $5k → 10%RED CROSS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$595k · 21 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
2

Total granted

$595k
$10k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    ANAWIM HOUSING INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +35%
  • CI
    CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +181%
  • HM
    HOPE MINISTRIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Crisis Intervention Services Inc

Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.

Human Services
2
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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3
Domestic Violence Intervention Services

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…

Human Services
4
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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5
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services
6
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

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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7
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.hope - through compassion…

Housing & Shelter
8
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

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

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9
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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10
Russell House Response to Domestic

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.

Human Services
11
S a F E Shelter

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…

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12
Elijah Family Homes

Elijah family homes fosters hope, dignity, and self-sufficiency through stable housing and support services for families seeking recovery.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Iowa Shelter & Services; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANAWIM HOUSING INC: $41,200 · OtherANAWIM HOUSING INCHOMES OF OAKRIDGE: $41,200 · OtherHOMES OF OAKRIDGEIA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTER: $36,200 · OtherIA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $30,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA: $25,000 · OtherYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWAIndividual grant recipient: $23,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEASTER SEALS CAMP SUNNYSIDE: $20,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS CAMP SUNNYSIDEBEACON OF HOPE: $15,000 · OtherBEACON OF HOPEFAMILIES FORWARD: $10,700 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherHOPE MINISTRIES: $41,200 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTRIESCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $41,200 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWASCKIC Inc: $25,200 · Human ServicesSCKIC IncCROSS Outreach: $21,200 · Human ServicesCROSS OutreachLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $21,200 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & I…ORCHARD PLACE: $41,200 · HealthORCHARD PLACEHOUSE OF MERCY: $41,200 · HealthHOUSE OF MERCYELLIPSIS INC: $15,000 · HealthELLIPSIS INCCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES: $41,200 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL IOWA…BEACON OF LIFE D/B/A THE BEACON: $26,200 · Housing & ShelterBEACON OF LI…GARDEN GATE RANCH INC: $16,200 · Philanthropy
Other$253,500Human Services$170,000Health$97,400Housing & Shelter$67,400Philanthropy$16,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 ANAWIM HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
  • Who funds BEACON OF LIFE D/B/A THE BEACON ↗
  • Who funds SCKIC Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds CROSS Outreach ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN GATE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗

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 …Community Fdn of Grea…The West Bancorporati…United Way of Central…The Merchants Bonding…Chrysalis FoundationIta Group FoundationVariety - the Childre…EMC Insurance Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Iowa Realty FoundationR & R Realty Group Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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