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Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation

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 needs and opportunities, and convenes people to learn, share ideas, and develop solutions for the…

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
209
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$371k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$12MArts & Culture$11MHuman Services$9.6MHealth$8.0MPhilanthropy$3.4MEnvironment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.5MYouth Development$1.1MOther$19M
02FY2024 · 209 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 209 grants below total $9,438,781 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,222,829 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $784,048 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $361k
  • $10k–50k101 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $5.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
$17,656
Median grant
21
States reached
$229M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $117k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $93k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $92k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $84k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $82k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $66k → 11%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $98k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $92k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $71k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $66k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $209k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $174k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $149k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $148k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $126k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $125k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $82k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $68k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $126k → 9%HORIZONS - A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $125k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $122k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $94k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK DBA YPN: $90k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK DBA YPN: $83k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $81k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK DBA YPN: $78k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $74k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK DBA YPN: $74k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK DBA YPN: $71k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $70k → 9%THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $70k → 9%YMCA OF THE CEDAR RAPIDS METRO AREA: $67k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $369k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $261k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $204k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $177k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $174k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $109k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $107k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $106k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $95k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $89k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $81k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $79k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $74k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $71k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $69k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $68k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’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 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% 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$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

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
126

Total granted

$67M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

79%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • MH
    MERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +227%
  • CC
    COE COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +19%
  • CC
    CORNELL COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IS
    IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +179%
  • NS
    N STREET VILLAGE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -4%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND
    one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +16%

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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
4
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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5
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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6
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
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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10
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
12
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 The Arc of East Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Ticked Off Lyme Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Public Library OperationsMilitary Veterans SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsLgbtq+ Community SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsFaith-Based Social ServicesCancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Christian Youth CampsDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Ymca Youth DevelopmentHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Youth Development CentersPregnancy Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%4%<5yr9%8%5–10yr14%22%10–20yr12%22%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr39%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%1%<5yr9%2%5–10yr14%19%10–20yr12%14%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr39%33%55yr+

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 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%4/414
the rest of the field
6%
1,701/28,791

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.

05the grantee network

324 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. 324 of the 414 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
92
Early backer (in before they grew)
319/324
Grantees still filing
220/324
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION 2 INC — $1,384,339 · OtherFOUNDATION 2 INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS & EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $1,095,399 · OtherWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $1,082,990 · OtherCITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,040,784 · OtherHOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY — $896,000 · Other+94 more — $15,474,110 · Other+94 moreCOE COLLEGE — $2,400,699 · EducationCOE COLLEGECORNELL COLLEGE — $1,692,264 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGESTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $1,398,023 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF …KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,076,061 · EducationKIRKWOOD COMMUNITY C…IOWA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $1,005,798 · EducationIOWA BROADCASTERS AS…MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $709,506 · EducationMOUND FARM HOLDINGS …UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $591,588 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $538,361 · EducationEastern Iowa Arts Academy — $510,034 · EducationCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $482,494 · EducationTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $469,460 · Education+13 more — $1,026,866 · Education+13 moreCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART — $1,997,834 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEU…ORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $1,434,793 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA IOWA INCTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC — $1,332,214 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY THEA…CONNECTCR INC — $1,247,115 · Arts & CultureCONNECTCR INCNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC — $1,195,865 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CZECH & S…LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $679,330 · Arts & CultureLINN COUNTY HISTOR…BRUCEMORE INC — $673,688 · Arts & CultureBRUCEMORE INCCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE — $593,650 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA…AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $446,225 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $1,375,991 · Arts & Culture+10 moreMATTHEW 25 — $1,438,750 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC — $1,081,351 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAUL…FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $694,008 · Human ServicesFOUR OAKS FAMIL…WAYPOINT SERVICES — $682,557 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVIC…CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA — $660,950 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS…HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE — $659,503 · Human ServicesHORIZONS A FAMI…YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK — $541,246 · Human ServicesYOUNG PARENTS N…HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $517,669 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA CO…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CEDAR RAPIDS METROPOLITAN AREA — $415,201 · Human Services+20 more — $2,432,225 · Human Services+20 moreMERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $3,115,023 · HealthMERCY HOSPITA…COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC — $1,419,275 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEA…TANAGER PLACE — $1,318,154 · HealthTANAGER PLACEAREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INC — $293,654 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $267,293 · Health+14 more — $1,433,740 · Health+14 moreUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $2,245,843 · PhilanthropyZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $558,680 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $348,583 · Philanthropy+3 more — $164,444 · PhilanthropyINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER — $1,466,530 · EnvironmentTREES FOREVER INC — $509,324 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $100,000 · EnvironmentIOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $99,500 · Environment
Other$20,973,622Education$11,901,154Arts & Culture$10,976,705Human Services$9,123,460Health$7,847,139Philanthropy$3,317,550Environment$2,175,354

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $3,115,023 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetCOE COLLEGE — $2,400,699 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $2,245,843 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART — $1,997,834 over 8y, 30% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE — $1,692,264 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER — $1,466,530 over 8y, 21% of budgetMATTHEW 25 — $1,438,750 over 8y, 19% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $1,434,793 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC — $1,419,275 over 8y, 12% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $1,398,023 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION 2 INC — $1,384,339 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC — $1,332,214 over 8y, 14% of budgetTANAGER PLACE — $1,318,154 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTCR INC — $1,247,115 over 7y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC — $1,195,865 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS & EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $1,095,399 over 8y, 25% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $1,082,990 over 8y, 12% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC — $1,081,351 over 8y, 13% of budgetKIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,076,061 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetIOWA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $1,005,798 over 8y, 99% of budgetHOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY — $896,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $709,506 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFEED IOWA FIRST — $694,361 over 8y, 50% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $694,008 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $682,557 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $679,330 over 8y, 35% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC — $673,688 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA — $660,950 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE — $659,503 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $640,025 over 8y, 14% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $617,010 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE — $593,650 over 8y, 34% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $591,588 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $589,363 over 7y, 39% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $558,680 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetYOUNG PARENTS NETWORK — $541,246 over 8y, 10% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $538,361 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $518,258 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $517,669 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEastern Iowa Arts Academy — $510,034 over 8y, 60% of budgetTREES FOREVER INC — $509,324 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetMONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT — $501,306 over 6y, 15% of budgetRodale Institute — $486,090 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $482,494 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $469,460 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $446,225 over 8y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR — $431,763 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CEDAR RAPIDS METROPOLITAN AREA — $415,201 over 8y, 1.2% 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 MERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTCR INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS & EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED IOWA FIRST ↗
  • Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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.

Alliant Energy Founda…United Way of East Ce…GreenState Credit Uni…The Hall-Perrine Foun…John P & Lawrence J G…United Fire Group Fou…Hawkeye Area Communit…The Accel FoundationCommunity Foundation …Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…The McIntyre Foundati…Mercy Medical Center
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI125.9× affinity119 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of East Central Iowa · GreenState Credit Union · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · United Fire Group Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · The Accel Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Mercy Medical Center

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 Greater Cedar Rapids Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
62report 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 414 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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