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Fairfax State Bk Charitable Trust

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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$75kEducation$56kHousing & Shelter$25kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$11kReligion$8kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,775
Median grant
2
States reached
$519k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
PRAIRIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$4,250
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA$3,775
AMERICAN LEGION PEKOMY POST 572$3,000
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
MERCY SHIPS$250
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $2k → 9%WAYPOINT: $2k → 9%WAYPOINT: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$206k · 18 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$206k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

56%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • PS
    PRAIRIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +133%
  • CV
    CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    2× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +75%
  • IC
    IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • EC
    ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION (HELPING HANDS MINISTRY)
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • HO
    HOUSE OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -2%
  • YO
    Youth Outreach & Counseling Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Common Good Iowa

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.

2
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
3
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
4
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
5
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…

6
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

7
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
8
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

9
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
10
Iowa Health System

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
11
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
12
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $68,500 · OtherMERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONPRAIRIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $37,000 · OtherPRAIRIE SCHOOL FOUNDATIONCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $15,500 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 · OtherIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONWILLIS DADY SHELTER — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $7,000 · Other+12 more — $19,400 · Other+12 moreUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $17,100 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER C…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $9,250 · Youth DevelopmentWAYPOINT SERVICES — $4,500 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $2,750 · Human ServicesSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationHIS HANDS MINISTRIES — $3,000 · HealthHOUSE OF HOPE — $2,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC — $500 · HealthYouth Outreach & Counseling Inc — $1,250 · ReligionLigonier Ministries Inc — $500 · ReligionMercy Ships International — $250 · International
Other$168,400Philanthropy$18,100Youth Development$9,250Human Services$7,250Education$6,000Health$6,000Religion$1,750International$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRAIRIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $17,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $15,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $9,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIS HANDS MINISTRIES — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Outreach & Counseling Inc — $1,250 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PRAIRIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES
  • Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE
  • Who funds Youth Outreach & Counseling Inc
  • Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC
  • Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International

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.

David Neuhaus Family FoundationIA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David Neuhaus Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Maurice Paul and Glennys Brimmer Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable 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 Fairfax State Bk Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fairfax State Bk Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Fairfax State Bk Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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