· Public charity
Habitat for Humanity of Iowa Inc
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of iowa brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope by partnering with local habitat for humanity organizations to offer financial products, resource development, education, and building public support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $934k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA VALLEY HFH | $300,331 |
| HENRY COUNTY HFH | $209,750 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA CORRIDOR HFH | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $185,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY HFH | $80,000 |
| MUSCATINE COUNTY AREA HFH | $72,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| HEART OF IOWA HFH | $65,000 |
| IOWA HEARTLAND HFH | $57,000 |
| HFH OF CENTRAL IOWA | $40,000 |
| HFH OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA | $35,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k went to new ones.
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
- IHIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +529%
- IVIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $545k · revenue +57%
- CVCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IAgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $95k · revenue +34%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC - BUENA VISTAone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue -91% · 26% of their budget
- GFGREATER FAIRFIELD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +36%
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.
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
Most construction work is performed by volunteers
Provide affordable housing to the disadvantaged
To build and rehabilitate houses which are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans
To provide affordable housing for the needy.
Helping families thrive through affordable homeownership.
The mission is to unite people to provide decent and affordable housing for families in need
To create decent affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which…
To eliminate poverty, housing and homelessness from the face of the earth by constructing and building adequate and basic housing.
Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The organization builds homes for low income families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Fairfield Area Habitat for Humanity Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA ↗
- Who funds MAHASKA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC - BUENA VISTA ↗
- Who funds Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds GREATER FAIRFIELD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLINTON COUNTY 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.
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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 Habitat for Humanity of Iowa Inc 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.