· Private foundation
Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grinnell Regional Medical Center Foundation | $50,000 |
| United Way of Central Iowa | $25,102 |
| Mid Iowa Community Action | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,470 |
| St Francis Manor Foundation | $12,500 |
| Grinnell Area Arts Council | $10,852 |
| Poweshiek County Sportsmans Association | $10,000 |
| Jasper County Agricultural Society | $10,000 |
| University of Iowa Foundation | $10,000 |
| University of Iowa Foundation | $10,000 |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $10,000 |
| Iowa College Foundation | $10,000 |
| Tama Ambulance Service | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Grinnell Mutual Group 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, 98% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
83 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 31 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +49%- GRGRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +32%
- MCMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC2× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BCBrooklyn Community Developmentone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -66%
- MHMAYFLOWER HOMES INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +19%
- COCity of Grinnell-Parks Recone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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…
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
United way's mission is to improve lives.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the muscatine community to advance the common good.
United way of missoula county builds a better community for all, especially in the areas of education, financial stability, and health. we collaborate with diverse community partners to identify important social issues and bring together…
United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
To unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Big Hearts 4 Tiny Hands. 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 55 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 257 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
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
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 GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREENFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Community Development ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS MANOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JASPER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr ↗
- Who funds Ahrens Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MAHASKA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Lsb Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem 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 Grinnell Mutual Group 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.
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