· Private foundation
First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of FIRST CITIZENS BANK CHARITABLE 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CEDAR RIVER RECREATION AND FINE ARTS | $25,000 |
| MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA | $16,750 |
| FLOYD COUNTY FAIR SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| IOWA SPECIALTY HOSPITAL - CLARION | $11,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IOWA INC | $10,250 |
| CITY OF CLARION | $10,000 |
| CHARLES THEATRE | $10,000 |
| MASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ONE VISION | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $10,000 |
| NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
123 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 35 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- NLNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +4%
- NINORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +161%
- WFWorld Food Prize Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- MCMASON CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- YFYSS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $40k
- CCCHARLES CITY EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
To provide an annual agricultural fair for the youth of marshall county
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.
Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration
The association provides a house for iowa state farmhouse members, guides and directs facility upkeep and improvements, provides scholarships for iowa state farmhouse members and supports the international farmhouse association.
To provide the public an intergenerational garden environment that is welcoming, beautiful, calm, educational, recreational, and fun.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize 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 33 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 312 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 NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
- Who funds FLOYD COUNTY FAIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds OSAGE COMMUNITY DAYCARE ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE RIDGE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds NIACOG HOUSING TRUST FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY SEMINARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds STEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
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: Farrer Endowment Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W
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 First Citizens Bank Charitable 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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