· Public charity
Heritage Area Agency on Aging
HERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING (heritage) serves the needs of older adults, caregivers, their families and people with disabilities in the following ways: planning: developing and implementing plans that identify and meet the needs of older adults in our service area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $1,472,244 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,717,437 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $245,193 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $556k
- $250k+1 grant · $820k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE | $819,523 |
| AGING SERVICES INC | $194,653 |
| CEDAR COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $96,621 |
| JONES COUNTY | $78,599 |
| HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $66,349 |
| NORTH ENGLISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $64,572 |
| CENTRAL CITY IOWA | $54,771 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $47,625 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA | $23,262 |
| CEDAR COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $18,000 |
| VOLUNTEER SERVICES OF CEDAR COUNTY | $8,269 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $13.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ASAGING SERVICES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +5%
- HAHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
- CCCEDAR COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $957k · revenue +41% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- ESELDER SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $166k
- WWESLEYLIFEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $67k · revenue +50%
- MAMILESTONES AREA AGENCY ON AGINGone grant, 2019 · $39k · revenue +7%
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.
The mission of aging resources of central iowa is to lead, advocate, and serve; as well as plan and coordinate resources in the provision of services to older persons in central iowa, their families, caregivers, or representatives,…
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
Social services for the elderly of iroquois county. to provide basic services including homemaker, mobile meals, telecare, van trips and outreach.
Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.
Provide transportation, meals, activities and other services to the elderly.
Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.
The mission of midland area agency on aging is to provide caring and quality services to older adults and their families that enable independent living with dignity in their homes and communities.
Provide elderly services to allow persons to stay in their own homes
The mission of the council on aging is to support the aging of elkhart county by providing services and resources which fosterwellness, dignity, independence and quality of life.
The program provides transportation, outreach services, meals, and recreational programs to the community's elderly citizens. The program serves more than 21,000 senior citizens in Meridian, Idaho. Seniors are transported for medical care,…
Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
To coordinate public and private programs promoting and safeguarding the independence and well being of senior citizens of iosco county, michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benton County Volunteer Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTH ENGLISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES OF CEDAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds BENTON COUNTY VOLUNTEER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LINN COMMUNITY CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
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: United Way of Johnson & Washington Count · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of East Central Iowa · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Heritage Area Agency on Aging 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.