· Private foundation
EMC Insurance Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $212k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $522k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $769k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orchard Place | $166,500 |
| United Way of Central Iowa | $160,498 |
| Des Moines Performing Arts | $125,000 |
| Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation | $66,666 |
| Blank Park Zoo | $50,000 |
| On With Life Foundation | $50,000 |
| ChildServe Inc | $50,000 |
| Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden | $50,000 |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $50,000 |
| Homes of Oakridge Human Services | $40,000 |
| Autism Society of America | $35,000 |
| Des Moines Area Religious Council | $30,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation | $29,933 |
| Ellipsis | $25,950 |
| Des Moines Symphony Association | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $789k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
135 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- OPORCHARD PLACE6× · 2020–2025 · $594k · revenue +13%
- DMDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +395%
Feeding America2× · 2020–2023 · $476k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ISIOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -94%
- YEYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWAone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -97%
- HAHARVEST ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the muscatine community to advance the common good.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Ima Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
179 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. 179 of the 232 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds BY DEGREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTUREALL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Ita Group Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · United Way of Central Iowa · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Lsb Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · GreenState Credit Union
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 EMC Insurance 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.
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
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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