How much did GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY grant in FY2024?

Education$12MArts & Culture$11MHuman Services$9.6MHealth$8.0MPhilanthropy$3.4MEnvironment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.5MYouth Development$1.1MOther$19M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

farmerprairie chiencolorsafe placeprogramming springdesignzoo

2019

co-op givingrampwishreadystarsofficefairfax

2020

immediate disasterdisaster responsesupplemental fooddistribution supplementalsupportshipadditional foodincreased demand

2021

youthteenthfish gamegame scholarshipovellong viewview neighborhoodrise wenzel

2022

bridgetree canopycanopy restorationtom andersonsoftwareeihcapproach

2023

thrive cohortcohort professionalgriddy goodsupportshipconnectveterandisaster preparedness

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 209 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k54 grants · $361k
$10k–50k101 grants · $2.2M
$50k–250k48 grants · $5.1M
$250k+6 grants · $1.9M

$17,656

Median grant

States reached

$229M

Total assets

Largest grants

FOUNDATION 2 AKA FOUNDATION 2 CRISIS SERVICES$371,323
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA$330,730
COE COLLEGE$314,017
COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS DBA THEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS$281,620
INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER$279,676
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART$272,691
CORNELL COLLEGE$227,545
ORCHESTRA IOWA$211,629
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS & EAST CENTRAL IOWA$207,161
MATTHEW 25$203,601
COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC$199,735
EASTERN IOWA ARTS ACADEMY$190,914
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER DBA WILLIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES$176,675
LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA THE HISTORY CENTER$159,657
TANAGER PLACE DBA TANAGER$152,740

02The need

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, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITYlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 8.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$67M · 250 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

250 repeat relationships — 168 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

250

129

Total granted

$67M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+45%

Still filing today

79%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $629k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

MM
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +177%
CC
COE COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +2%
CR
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +1% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

IS
IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION DBA BLUE RIBBON FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +76%
NS
N STREET VILLAGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +31%
GI
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND--IOWA CITY
one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +13%

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.

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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United Way of North Central Iowa

Connect and strengthen community resources to inspire change in the lives of all north Iowans.

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

American Civil Liberties Union

To protect the basic freedoms and liberties of everyone in iowa.

Civil Rights

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To establish an association of companies interested in promoting the production and use of renewable fuels through consumer education, product promotion, sound legislative and regulatory policy and infrastructure development.

Community Improvement

Food Bank of Iowa

We provide food for iowa children, families, and seniors to lead full and active lives, strengthening the communities where they live.

Food & Nutrition

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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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.

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Iowa Corn Promotion Board

Creating opportunities for long-term iowa corn grower profitability.

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Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement

Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries of the Heartland and the most unlike its peers is Central College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1.0%4/415

the rest of the field

1,458/28,790

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.

06the grantee network

324 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

126

Early backer (in before they grew)

318/324

Grantees still filing

243/324

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$23,096,905Education$12,181,330Arts & Culture$11,097,153Human Services$9,580,895Health$8,031,450Philanthropy$3,400,902Environment$2,290,440

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.

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.

United Way of East Central IowaIA134.4× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of East Central Iowa · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · United Fire Group Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · Mercy Medical Center · Community Foundation of Johnson County · The McIntyre Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · The Accel 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 organisation GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IOWA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454574664 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IOWA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Greater Cedar Rapids Community?

Find your warmest path to Greater Cedar Rapids Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

324 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Cedar Rapids Community?

More from the funding graph

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

324 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Cedar Rapids Community?

More from the funding graph