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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.

$844k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MArts & Culture$319kFood & Nutrition$213kEducation$168kPublic Safety & Disaster$156kHealth$150kPublic Benefit$109kCommunity Improvement$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $337,215, the rows itemized in this filing. The $843,930 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $506,715 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
$9,732
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Grinnell Day Care Center Inc: $42k → 9%Mayflower Homes Inc: $38k → 9%Grinnell Day Care Center Inc: $27k → 9%Mayflower Homes Inc: $24k → 9%Mayflower HOmes Inc: $20k → 9%Mayflower Homes Inc: $17k → 9%Mayflower HOmes Inc: $17k → 9%Grinnell Community Early Learning Center: $10k → 9%LINK Inc: $9k → 9%LINK Inc: $6k → 9%Grinnell Community Early Learning Center: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 33 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+2%

Still filing today

42%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CW
    Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $213k · revenue +88%
  • OP
    ORCHARD PLACE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $203k · revenue +13%
  • MH
    MAYFLOWER HOMES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MC
    MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +2%
  • EP
    East Poweshiek County Ambulances Serivce
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
  • AP
    Ahrens Park Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Fund of Grinnell Iowa Inc

Collect and distribute funds to charitable organizations

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2
Cardinal Child Development Center

Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.

Human Services
3
Grand View Child Development Center Inc

Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities

Human Services
4
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation
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6
Iowa Specialty Hospital Foundation - Clarion
Health
7
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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8
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
9
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
10
Cedar County Coordinated Child Care

To provide quality child care services

Human Services
11
Apple Daycare Inc

Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.

Human Services
12
Plains Area Mental Health Center I

To provide mental health services to the public

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grinnell Regional Medical Center Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Marion County Public Health: $503,125 · OtherMarion County Public HealthGrinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr: $182,995 · OtherGrinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachU…Grinnell-Newburg School Disct: $68,716 · OtherCity of Montezuma: $64,403 · OtherJasper County Extension: $49,602 · OtherCITY OF GRINNELL: $49,200 · Other+37 more: $528,672 · Other+37 moreORCHARD PLACE: $203,435 · HealthORCHARD PLACEGRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $68,911 · HealthGRINNELL REGIONAL…GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $59,180 · HealthGRINNELL REGIONAL…ST FRANCIS MANOR FOUNDATION: $43,354 · HealthST FRANCIS MANOR …+1 more: $8,000 · HealthClaude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation: $213,466 · PhilanthropyClaude W & D…BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $58,717 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COM…MAYFLOWER HOMES INC: $116,036 · Human ServicesMAYFLOWER…GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE: $84,013 · Human ServicesGRINNELL …LINK Inc: $14,850 · Human ServicesLINK IncMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $76,099 · Community ImprovementBrooklyn Community Development: $53,538 · Community ImprovementADOPT A FAMILY LOCAL FOOD CONNECTION: $35,798 · Food & NutritionPOWESHIEK COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsAhrens Park Foundation: $11,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,446,713Health$382,880Philanthropy$272,183Human Services$214,899Community Improvement$129,637Food & Nutrition$35,798Recreation & Sports$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClaude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation: $213,466 over 5y, 12% of budgetORCHARD PLACE: $203,435 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGrinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr: $182,995 over 5y, 60% of budgetMAYFLOWER HOMES INC: $116,036 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE: $84,013 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $76,099 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $68,911 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $59,180 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $58,717 over 4y, 19% of budgetBrooklyn Community Development: $53,538 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $48,167 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST FRANCIS MANOR FOUNDATION: $43,354 over 4y, 17% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY LOCAL FOOD CONNECTION: $35,798 over 5y, 28% of budgetPOWESHIEK COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 36% of budgetPECK CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $17,200 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLINK Inc: $14,850 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetREAD 2 LEAD: $11,660 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetAhrens Park Foundation: $11,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAPSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $9,140 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARE INITIATIVES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRINNELL HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY: $6,539 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELL: $5,300 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Trustees of Grinn…Grinnell Mutual Group…Community Fdn of Grea…Delta Dental of Iowa …Claude W & Dolly Ahre…Brownell Family Found…Lsb FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Trustees of Grinnell CollegeIA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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