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Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation
Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation inspires philanthropy through effective granting, responsible investing, and collaborative partnering to emplower inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable communities and nonprofits.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $337,215 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $843,930 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $506,715 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 $10k18 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grinnell Area Arts Council | $40,188 |
| Mayflower Homes Inc | $37,810 |
| The Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation | $21,345 |
| Unity Point Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | $20,800 |
| Drake Community Library | $15,000 |
| United Church of Christ Congregational | $14,300 |
| Grinnell Farm to Table | $11,750 |
| Brooklyn Community Development | $10,088 |
| East Poweshiek County Ambulance Service | $10,070 |
| Malcom United Methodist Church | $10,000 |
| Bear Creek Kids Campus | $10,000 |
| Hartwick Volunterr Fire Department Inc | $9,965 |
| Brooklyn Community Food Bank | $9,800 |
| Poweshiek County Extension | $9,778 |
| Grinnell Community Early Learning Center | $9,732 |
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 (FY20–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- CWClaude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $213k · revenue +88%
- OPORCHARD PLACE2× · 2020–2021 · $203k · revenue +13%
- MHMAYFLOWER HOMES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MCMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +14%
- EPEast Poweshiek County Ambulances Serivceone grant, 2022 · $14k
- APAhrens Park Foundationone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue -51%
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.
Collect and distribute funds to charitable organizations
Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
Child day care center
To provide quality child care services
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
To provide mental health services to the public
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grinnell Regional Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Poweshiek County Fair Foundation. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 39. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 58 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 Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Community Development ↗
- Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS MANOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY LOCAL FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Hartwick Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds POWESHIEK COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PECK CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINK Inc ↗
- Who funds READ 2 LEAD ↗
- Who funds Ahrens Park Foundation ↗
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: The Trustees of Grinnell College · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation · Brownell Family Foundation · Lsb Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Greater Poweshiek 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.
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.