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HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION
Helping people develop skills to become successful and build strong communities.
$27M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
campgivingchild careover
2020
headstartenvironmenthearttablebridgecampgospel
2021
girlsadults remainingvaluesheadstartenvironmentlibraryoperates
2022
mobile pantryfood reservoirlibrary mobilemobile dropwilliamsburgcupboardbelle plaine
2023
mobile pantryfood reservoirlibrary mobilemobile dropbelle plainesenior diningcupboard
2024
senior citizensdurantsenior marketrapids metroanamosadistrictdistribution
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $26,859,294.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$14M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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West Central Community Action
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Human Services
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Central Iowa Shelter & Services
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
Housing & Shelter
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Aging Resources of Central Iowa
Aging resources is part of a national network of area agencies on aging established through the older americans act and supported by federal, state, and local funds.
Human Services
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Family Promise of Greater Des Moines
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
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Lutheran Retirement Home
Lutheran retirement home is a christian based continuum of service enriching lives by providing care and compassion to our residents and our communities
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United Way of North Central Iowa
Connect and strengthen community resources to inspire change in the lives of all north Iowans.
Philanthropy
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Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
Charitable food distribution.
Food & Nutrition
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The Arc of Southeast Iowa
Provide services to people with disabilities in the local area.
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Webster City Day Care
Child day care center
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Neighborhood Food Bank
To provide food to individuals in need in northern iowa.
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South Central Iowa Community
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change.
Community Improvement
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Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter House Community Shelter and the most unlike its peers is Community & Family Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.7%1/155
the rest of the field
8%
192/2,355
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.
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.
Greater Cedar Rapids CommunityIA74.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Cedar Rapids Community · United Way of East Central Iowa · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · United Way of Johnson & Washington Count · Washington County Riverboat · Mercy Medical Center · United Fire Group Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Hawkeye Area Community Action?
Find your warmest path to Hawkeye Area Community Action through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines