· Public charity
Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc
Elementary & secondary education: the organization distributes from funds raised in the form of scholarships to low income families.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $980k
- $250k+1 grant · $527k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $527,297 |
| GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $239,430 |
| PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL | $217,938 |
| ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $140,878 |
| CEDAR VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $91,070 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $88,931 |
| ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM | $75,502 |
| WATERLOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $75,078 |
| TRI-STATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $51,390 |
| AMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $16,826 |
| IOWA ACE | $14,100 |
| IOWA ACS | $14,100 |
| MARSHALLTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $13,650 |
| MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $7,362 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +94% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DMDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +94%
- GVGRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +399%
- ACANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +127%
Funded once
- JCJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $179k · revenue +19%
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.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.
K-8 school
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Education - private christian school grades k-12
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is Ames Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LINN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR ACADEMY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Tri-State Christian School Association ↗
- Who funds FAITH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds IOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way Worldwide · Frederick C Denman Charitable Trust Co Iowa State Bank Trust Department · Stanley M Herzog Charitable Foundation · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization 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.