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Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines

To support the community foundation of greater des moines and serve as the host charitable organization for one or more charity golf tournaments in the greater des moines area.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
81
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$188k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$8.2MArts & Culture$8.2MHuman Services$6.3MPhilanthropy$4.5MYouth Development$4.0MEducation$2.2MRecreation & Sports$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.7MOther$16M
02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 81 grants below total $9,947,920 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,675,574 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $727,654 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k74 grants · $9.8M
$137,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DES MOINES METRO OPERA$187,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA$138,500
THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION$137,600
BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$137,600
MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND$137,500
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS$137,500
EASTERSEALS IOWA$137,500
GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION$137,500
BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$137,500
IOWA MEDIATION SERVICES$137,500
FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$137,500
HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION$137,500
IOWA FFA FOUNDATION$137,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA$137,500
MERCYONE HOUSE OF MERCY$137,500
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 (FY18–25, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $138k → 11%QUAKERDALE FAMILY SERVICES: $137k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $138k → 11%QUAKERDALE FAMILY SERVICES: $135k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $138k → 14%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $110k → 11%JOSIAH WHITE'S QUAKERDALE FOUNDATION: $110k → 11%QUAKERDALE FAMILY SERVICES: $124k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $110k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%QUAKERDALE: $100k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%THE FREESTORE: $135k → 5%ONE WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%ONE WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE FREESTORE: $100k → 5%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE FREESTORE: $100k → 5%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL (DMARC): $110k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $100k → 10%FREESTORE INC: $89k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $135k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $135k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $138k → 10%HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $138k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $100k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $100k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $138k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $138k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $111k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $111k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $110k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $110k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $100k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $100k → 10%FREESTORE INC: $135k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $110k → 10%ETHNIC MINORITIES OF BURMA ADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER OF IOWA: $138k → 10%EMBARC: $135k → 10%EMBARC: $110k → 10%EMBARC: $110k → 10%EMBARC: $100k → 10%ETHNIC MINORITIES OF BURMA ADVOCAVY AND RESCOURSE CTR: $100k → 10%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52M · 105 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.

105 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
6

Total granted

$52M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-30%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • DM
    DES MOINES METRO OPERA FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +158%
  • VT
    VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +35%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue -30% · 56% of their budget
  • GD
    GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $87k
  • MH
    MY HAPPY PLACE
    one grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue -95%

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.

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2
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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3
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
4
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
5
Des Moines Golf and Country Club Educational Foundation
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6
Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation
Education
7
Des Moines Public Library Foundation

Raise funds and advocate provide for the des moines public library system.

Philanthropy
8
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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9
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
10
Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote and develop the visitors and convention industry in the greater des moines area and to encourage the utilization of facilities for visitors and conventions.

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11
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines

The mission of the jewish federation of greater des moines is to further the continuity and welfare of the des moines, ames, and other central iowa jewish communities, and to enable these jewish communities to maximize their resources by…

Philanthropy
12
Greater Des Moines Partnership

None

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is Businessolver Foundation. 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 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number8%3%<5yr5%8%5–10yr7%17%10–20yr6%28%20–35yr8%26%35–55yr67%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value8%2%<5yr5%8%5–10yr7%16%10–20yr6%32%20–35yr8%23%35–55yr67%20%55yr+

The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/124
the rest of the field
4%
434/10,060

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.

04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 124 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.

27
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/114
Grantees still filing
76/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DES MOINES METRO OPERA FOUNDATION INC — $1,280,571 · OtherDES MOINES METRO OPERA FOUNDATION INCVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $1,079,519 · OtherDOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $910,280 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $885,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $856,125 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA — $812,500 · OtherMENTOR IOWA — $805,000 · OtherIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC — $802,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $750,000 · OtherCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $927,314 · OtherFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $745,980 · OtherIOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC — $805,000 · OtherKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $723,110 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $1,013,500 · Other+38 more — $8,634,958 · Other+38 moreMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $1,058,000 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATION …CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $953,750 · HealthCENTRAL IOWA HOSP…MIRACLE TRAVEL WORKS INC — $830,257 · HealthMIRACLE TRAVEL WO…CRADLING NEW LIFE INC — $783,833 · HealthCRADLING NEW LIFE…HOUSE OF MERCY — $775,500 · HealthHOUSE OF MERCYTORI'S ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $750,986 · HealthTORI'S ANGELS FOU…IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE — $585,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTHIEST S…IOWA HEART FOUNDATION — $583,942 · HealthIOWA HEART FOUNDA…DENTAL CONNECTIONS INC — $416,000 · HealthBROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $337,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $330,050 · Health+5 more — $788,606 · Health+5 moreHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION — $915,342 · Arts & CultureHOYT SHERMAN PLAC…CULTUREALL INC — $809,252 · Arts & CultureCULTUREALL INCBALLET DES MOINES — $803,620 · Arts & CultureBALLET DES MOINESDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $682,445 · Arts & CultureDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF…SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION — $672,651 · Arts & CultureSALISBURY HOUSE F…ARTS FOR THE CITY INC — $667,550 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR THE CITY…DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $631,169 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES COMMUN…GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $631,055 · Arts & CultureGREATER DES MOINE…HEARTLAND YOUTH CHOIR — $615,766 · Arts & CultureHEARTLAND YOUTH C…STAGEWEST THEATER COMPANY — $601,869 · Arts & CultureSTAGEWEST THEATER…SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA — $455,250 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF…BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC — $330,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $338,621 · Arts & CultureLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC — $917,740 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERV…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $916,500 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR F…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION — $738,412 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMM…FREESTORE — $699,057 · Human ServicesFREESTOREON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION — $640,000 · Human ServicesON WITH LIFE …QUAKERDALE FAMILY SERVICES — $529,558 · Human ServicesQUAKERDALE FA…DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $500,752 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AR…HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $492,150 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAKR…CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $470,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSERVE FO…QUAKERDALE — $210,100 · Human Services+2 more — $155,100 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $1,056,603 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…WILDWOOD HILLS INC — $972,654 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD …O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES — $742,000 · PhilanthropyO DONNELL…BEYOND THE FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION — $477,619 · PhilanthropyBEYOND TH…THE EASTER SEAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $455,500 · PhilanthropyTHE EASTE…BUSINESSOLVER FOUNDATION — $445,000 · PhilanthropyBUSINESSO…REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI — $258,820 · PhilanthropyREBUILDIN…+2 more — $97,479 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $907,100 · Youth DevelopmentGENESIS INC — $731,500 · Youth DevelopmentJOSIAH WHITE'S QUAKERDALE FOUNDATION — $555,735 · Youth DevelopmentMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $540,100 · Youth DevelopmentDREAM TEAM DES MOINES — $445,780 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $360,368 · Youth DevelopmentTECH JOURNEY INC — $228,099 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $137,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $58,850 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BUILD LINCOLN HIGHER BOOSTER CLUB — $764,500 · EducationDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $641,600 · EducationAVENUE SCHOLARS IOWA — $258,828 · EducationTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION — $137,600 · EducationDES MOINES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $135,000 · EducationROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $116,522 · Education+2 more — $125,464 · Education
Other$21,031,357Health$8,193,424Arts & Culture$8,154,590Human Services$6,269,369Philanthropy$4,505,675Youth Development$3,965,032Education$2,179,514

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 budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA FOUNDATION INC — $1,280,571 over 8y, 24% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $1,079,519 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $1,058,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $1,056,603 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $1,013,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetWILDWOOD HILLS INC — $972,654 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $953,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $927,314 over 7y, 79% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC — $917,740 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $916,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION — $915,342 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $907,100 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $885,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetMIRACLE TRAVEL WORKS INC — $830,257 over 8y, 76% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA — $812,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCULTUREALL INC — $809,252 over 7y, 45% of budgetIOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC — $805,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetMENTOR IOWA — $805,000 over 7y, 56% of budgetBALLET DES MOINES — $803,620 over 7y, 19% of budgetIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC — $802,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetCRADLING NEW LIFE INC — $783,833 over 8y, 99% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY — $775,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BUILD LINCOLN HIGHER BOOSTER CLUB — $764,500 over 7y, 37% of budgetTORI'S ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $750,986 over 8y, 28% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $750,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $745,980 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetO DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES — $742,000 over 7y, 95% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION — $738,412 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetGENESIS INC — $731,500 over 7y, 55% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $723,110 over 7y, 11% of budgetFREESTORE — $699,057 over 7y, 15% of budgetCAN PLAY — $695,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $682,445 over 7y, 15% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION — $672,651 over 7y, 15% of budgetARTS FOR THE CITY INC — $667,550 over 6y, 80% of budgetDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $641,600 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION — $640,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $631,169 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $631,055 over 8y, 49% of budgetHEARTLAND YOUTH CHOIR — $615,766 over 6y, 51% of budgetSTAGEWEST THEATER COMPANY — $601,869 over 6y, 42% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE — $585,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetIOWA HEART FOUNDATION — $583,942 over 6y, 20% of budgetNO FOOT TOO SMALL — $580,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetJOSIAH WHITE'S QUAKERDALE FOUNDATION — $555,735 over 5y, 11% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $540,100 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetQUAKERDALE FAMILY SERVICES — $529,558 over 5y, 34% of budgetIOWA PGA FOUNDATION — $513,000 over 7y, 20% 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 DES MOINES METRO OPERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDWOOD HILLS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE TRAVEL WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
  • Who funds CULTUREALL INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTOR IOWA ↗
  • Who funds BALLET DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds IOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLING NEW LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
  • Who funds THE BUILD LINCOLN HIGHER BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds TORI'S ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE ↗
  • Who funds CAN PLAY ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …EMC Insurance Foundat…Variety - the Childre…The Merchants Bonding…Meredith Corporation …The West Bancorporati…United Way of Central…Ita Group FoundationBravo Greater Des Moi…Lsb FoundationGreenState Credit Uni…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA114.2× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Ita Group Foundation · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · Lsb Foundation · 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 Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 124 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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