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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$527k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $980k
  • $250k+1 grant · $527k
$75,502
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 ACS$14,100
IOWA ACE$14,100
MARSHALLTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$13,650
MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL$7,362
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $680k → 5%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $264k → 8%CEDAR VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $111k → 9%GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $305k → 10%TRI-STATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $88k → 11%HEARTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $96k → 12%MORNING STAR ACADEMY: $115k → 12%FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $89k → 15%WATERLOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $129k → 17%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $676k → 5%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $251k → 8%CEDAR VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $91k → 9%GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $297k → 10%MORNING STAR ACADEMY: $108k → 12%WATERLOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $98k → 17%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $643k → 5%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $235k → 8%GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $239k → 10%MORNING STAR ACADEMY: $103k → 12%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $548k → 5%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $218k → 8%GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $226k → 10%MORNING STAR ACADEMY: $97k → 12%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $527k → 5%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $163k → 8%GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $180k → 10%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $508k → 5%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $129k → 8%GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $166k → 10%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $452k → 5%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $407k → 5%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $183k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $341k → 10%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $155k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $303k → 10%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $149k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $200k → 10%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $138k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $158k → 10%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $125k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $141k → 10%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $125k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $111k → 10%ISAAC NEWTON CHRISTIAN ACADEM: $97k → 9%ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $108k → 10%IOWA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $214k → 10%JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $179k → 10%MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $128k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 17 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$13M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DM
    DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +94%
  • GV
    GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +399%
  • AC
    ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • JC
    JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $179k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
2
North Iowa Christian School

Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.

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3
Omaha Christian Academy

K-8 school

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4
Victory Christian Academy

The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…

Education
5
The Christian Academy

The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.

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6
Dakota Christian School

The mission of dakota christian school is to assist parents by providing education based on a biblical worldview, thereby enabling children to grow in christian wisdom, to nurture godly character, and to serve christ as lord.

Education
7
Grace Christian Academy St Louis

The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to first serve families and children by giving them a Biblically-based education centered on a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, imparting a Christian world view and emphasizing Godly…

Education
8
Holy Cross Christian Academy

Holy cross christian academy is committed to providing quality, innovative, christ-centered education. our dedicated, professional christian educators strive to engage our students in a comprehensive educational environment that is…

Education
9
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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10
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
11
Johnson Corners Christian Academy

Johnson corners christian academy partners with christian parents to provide a biblically integrated education which equips, empowers, and engages students to embrace biblical truth, to strive for academic excellence and to exemplify…

Education
12
Angleton Christian School

The mission of the school is to provide the students of acs with quality, god-centered education; training children in the way they should go, equipping students to glorify god by being a witness for jesus christ to the world through a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Christian Schools; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $4,440,105 · EducationDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSGRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,490,259 · EducationGRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCMORNING STAR ACADEMY ASSOCIATION: $555,714 · EducationMORNING STAR ACADEMY ASSOCIATIONMARSHALLTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $267,372 · Education+5 more: $688,063 · Education+5 moreANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,361,936 · OtherANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $1,259,670 · OtherPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOLLINN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO: $1,046,553 · OtherLINN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATIOCEDAR VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $686,496 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLLIVING HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH: $572,586 · OtherLIVING HOPE BAPTIST CHURCHMT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL: $419,792 · OtherMT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOLIOWA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $289,178 · OtherTri-State Christian School Association: $245,861 · OtherHEARTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $216,423 · Other
Education$7,441,513Other$6,098,495

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Grea…United Way WorldwideFrederick C Denman Ch…Stanley M Herzog Char…Vermeer Charitable Fo…Hills Bank Donor Advi…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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