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Greenstate Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$876k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MHuman Services$336kCommunity Improvement$280kEducation$188kFood & Nutrition$161kYouth Development$126kEnvironment$123kHealth$98kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $463k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$543k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DBA HOUSE OF HOPE$75,000
CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$75,000
AMERICAN'S FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$50,000
MULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER$50,000
YOUTH SHELTER CARE OF NC IOWA INC$30,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$25,000
CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA (CFI)$25,000
ANAWIM HOUSING$25,000
JOB RIDES INC$25,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY$25,000
WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY$25,000
WILLIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES$25,000
360 YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
100 IN 24 OF CEDAR RAPIDS$25,000
THINK BIG CORPORATION$25,000
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 (FY22–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $8k → 6%YOUTH & SHELTER SERVICES INC: $20k → 17%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 17%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC: $5k → 7%360 YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 7%IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%KINNA'S HOUSE OF LOVE: $2k → 12%ELMHURST WALK-IN ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $5k → 7%HAND-IN-HAND: $15k → 12%TABLE TO TABLE: $18k → 15%HOPE MINISTRIES: $17k → 10%MATTHEW 25: $3k → 9%RIVA REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION: $10k → 10%JOPPA: $5k → 10%HOPE MINISTRIES: $17k → 10%SHALOM COMMUNITY IMPACT CENTER: $5k → 10%HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $10k → 10%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Greenstate 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, 95% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Greenstate Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$557k · 20 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
285

Total granted

$557k
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $785k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthEducationOther

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

  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +15%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • IJ
    IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +2%
  • CR
    CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +216%
  • HH
    HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +34%

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
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
2
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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3
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement
4
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
5
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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6
Iowa Center Loan Fund

The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…

Community Improvement
7
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

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8
Community Action of Eastern Iowa

Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.

Community Improvement
9
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
10
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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11
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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12
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is The Trinity 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts OrganizationsChildren & Family Crisis Se…Residential Care & Day Serv…Regional Economic Developme…DuPage County Community Fou…Family Philanthropic Founda…Christian K-12 SchoolsRegional Healthcare SystemsIndustry Trade Associations
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 27 years old; the field is 45. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%8%<5yr9%8%5–10yr13%28%10–20yr10%19%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr46%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%4%<5yr9%4%5–10yr13%35%10–20yr10%24%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr46%5%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/101
the rest of the field
7%
1,293/18,233

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

91 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. 91 of the 360 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/91
Grantees still filing
52/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $75,000 · Other+161 more — $1,454,031 · Other+161 moreNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $52,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD…HOPE MINISTRIES — $50,001 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTR…360 YOUTH SERVICES — $25,000 · Human Services360 YOUTH SE…YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SH…HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAK…TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK — $17,500 · Human ServicesTABLE TO TAB…JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesJESSE COSBY …HAND IN HAND — $15,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HANDURBAN DREAMS — $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $23,000 · Human Services+4 moreDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentForest Avenue Outreach — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLBA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER — $25,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOREVER INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER — $17,500 · EnvironmentIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $17,000 · EnvironmentLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $6,050 · EnvironmentUNITED WAYS OF IOWA — $40,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $30,000 · Community ImprovementOne Economy Financial Development Corp — $15,000 · Community ImprovementLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD — $18,000 · EducationKIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $27,500 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,529,031Human Services$258,001Youth Development$182,000Environment$105,550Community Improvement$100,000Education$98,000Housing & Shelter$87,500

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $52,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES — $50,001 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF IOWA — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOB RIDES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetGENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget360 YOUTH SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTREES FOREVER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF IOWA — $22,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIOWA MIGRANT MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTCR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD — $18,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER — $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $17,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOne Economy Financial Development Corp — $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetDALLA TERRA RANCH FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELLIPSIS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELMHURST-YORKFIELD FOOD PANTRY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHAND IN HAND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program — $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPROTEUS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $14,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForest Avenue Outreach — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN DREAMS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

GreenState Credit Uni…Alliant Energy Founda…Community Fdn of Grea…Delta Dental of Iowa …Greater Cedar Rapids …Prairie Meadows Race …United Way of Central…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Variety - the Childre…Lsb FoundationDupaco RW Hoefer Foun…The West Bancorporati…
GreenState Credit UnionIA95× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Lsb Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc

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 Greenstate 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greenstate Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Greenstate Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 360 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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