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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. Low income is defined as families with income less than four times the poverty level for their household. The state requires that 90% of the funds be distributed to these families, which is always complied…

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$75,502
Largest grant, FY2024
$527,297
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$1.6M0%
FY202317$2.6M6%
FY202216$2.2M6%
FY202115$2.1M7%
FY202014$1.4M14%
FY201910$1.2M10%
FY201810$1.3M30%
FY20179$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$14M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Des Moines Christian Schools$4,440,10585%
Grand View Christian School Association Inc$1,490,25989%
Ankeny Christian Academy$1,361,93678%
Pella Christian Grade School$1,259,67065%
Linn Christian Education Associatio$1,046,55388%
Cedar Valley Christian School$686,4968n/a
Living Hope Baptist Church$572,5867n/a
Morning Star Academy Association$555,71468%
Mt Olive Lutheran Church & School$419,7927n/a
Iowa Christian Academy$289,1782n/a
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All grantees of Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Des Moines Christian Schools$4,440,10585%
Grand View Christian School Association Inc$1,490,25989%
Ankeny Christian Academy$1,361,93678%
Pella Christian Grade School$1,259,67065%
Linn Christian Education Associatio$1,046,55388%
Cedar Valley Christian School$686,4968n/a
Living Hope Baptist Church$572,5867n/a
Morning Star Academy Association$555,71468%
Mt Olive Lutheran Church & School$419,7927n/a
Iowa Christian Academy$289,1782n/a
Marshalltown Christian School$267,372714%
Tri-State Christian School Association$245,86147%
Faith Academy$232,96336%
Heartland Christian School Incorporated$216,4236n/a
Ames Christian School$188,29876%
Joshua Christian Academy Inc$178,50219%
Iowa Association of Christian Schools$44,150518%
Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education$44,150516%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDes Moines Christian Schools: $4,440,105 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetGrand View Christian School Association Inc: $1,490,259 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetAnkeny Christian Academy: $1,361,936 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetPella Christian Grade School: $1,259,670 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetLinn Christian Education Associatio: $1,046,553 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetMorning Star Academy Association: $555,714 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetMarshalltown Christian School: $267,372 over 7y, 14% of budgetTri-State Christian School Association: $245,861 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetFaith Academy: $232,963 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetAmes Christian School: $188,298 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetJoshua Christian Academy Inc: $178,502 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetIowa Association of Christian Schools: $44,150 over 5y, 18% of budgetIowa Alliance for Choice in Education: $44,150 over 5y, 16% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc

How much does Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc give?
Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc reported 14 grants totaling $1,578,052 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Des Moines Christian Schools ($4.4M), Grand View Christian School Association Inc ($1.5M), Ankeny Christian Academy ($1.4M).
Does Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include 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.
Where is Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc based?
Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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