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First Federal Credit Union Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER POINT URBANA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MT ZION FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $1,000 |
| WILLIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES | $1,000 |
| INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
| GREEN SQUARE MEALS | $1,000 |
| KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| VARIETY CLUB OF EASTERN IOWA | $1,000 |
| SIMPSONS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| SALUTE TO THE FALLEN | $850 |
| HOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY | $750 |
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 (FY19–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TFThe Freedom Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +122%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC3× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +114%
- GSGreen Square Meals Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- M2MATTHEW 25graduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +46%
- CVCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +32%
- TFTREES FOREVER INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -21%
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The greater cedar rapids community foundation (the community foundation) partners with donors, funders, and other community collaborators to achieve high-impact philanthropy, supports nonprofit organizations that address our community's…
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
To strengthen Iowa's families and communities by providing free legal help that protects housing, safety, and income-and empowers people to build stable, independent lives. With 10 offices serving all 99 Iowa counties, Iowa Legal Aid helps…
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
To honor and strengthen iowas first responder and military marriages by providing relevant coaching;encouraging the development of the community with one another; and rallying the support of the citizens of
Freedom for youth offers the love of jesus christ to at-risk inner city youth and homeless young adults which empowers them to break bondages in their lives, discover their god given purpose and lead a life filled with faith, hope & love.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals From the Heartland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patrons of the Performing Arts At Washington High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 79 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
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 MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds Green Square Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Linn County ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LBA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Linn County Trails Association ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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: Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · United Fire Group Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · The Linge Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · ESP International 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 First Federal Credit Union 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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