· Public charity
Good Neighbor Fund-Spirit Lake
Solicit local donations by community wide appeal and redistribute to local charitable agencies requesting donations that meet prescribed conditions set by the board.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $200,574 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $214,668 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,094 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 $10k12 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,411 |
| CAMP FOSTER | $17,739 |
| UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY | $11,529 |
| FAMILY CRISIS | $11,484 |
| PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER | $11,422 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER | $11,349 |
| SPIRIT LAKE YOUTH ATHLETICS | $11,165 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $11,144 |
| HOPE ROLLS | $10,014 |
| CHERISH CENTER | $9,138 |
| KINGS AND QUEENS | $7,844 |
| ATLAS | $7,635 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $7,284 |
| RESPITE ANGELS | $6,976 |
| MID-AMERICA COUNCIL-BOY SCOUT | $6,784 |
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, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 5% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- CFCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +22%
- UDUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%
- PLPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER6× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- OOTHERone grant, 2019 · $7k
- TOTIME OUT NURSERYone grant, 2017 · $7k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $6k
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 purpose of Spencer Little League Association is to firmly implant in our youth the ideals of sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for leadership while providing opportunities for our youth to play organized baseball and…
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.
Provide counseling and education for the prevention of alcohol and drug related problems to the residents of northwest iowa.
Providing service to young men ages 7-21 and young women ages 14-21 within 17 counties of the state of iowa, by promoting the ability of young men and women to do things for themselves and others, training them in scoutcraft and teaching…
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
The organization provides mentoring support and referral services for people with physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological problems.
To provide temporary shelter, food, medical attention, and comfort to displaced and neglected companion animals and educate the public about the humane care of animals with the goal of reducing overpopulation.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties
Promotion of a youth hockey association.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Lakes Area Hockey Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHERISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTERS AGAINST ABUSE & SEXUAL ASSA ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF THE LAKES AREA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST IOWA ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF SPENCER ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc · Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundation · Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Good Neighbor Fund-Spirit Lake 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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