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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. Funding: obtaining federal, state, and other (I.e. Grants, etc.)…

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$64,572
Largest grant, FY2025
$819,523
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Heritage Area Agency on Aging funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalOther
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
FY2025still arriving11$1.5M0%
FY202411$1.6M0%
FY202312$1.6M0%
FY202213$3.3M0%
FY202114$3.7M7%
FY202013$4.4M15%
FY201914$1.5Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$14MPublic Benefit$982kPhilanthropy$971kFood & Nutrition$957kCommunity Improvement$616kCrime & Legal$271kHealth$87kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Horizons a Family Service Alliance$9,071,772747%
Aging Services Inc$2,506,803722%
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc$1,004,08370%
Jones County$981,8627n/a
Cedar County Senior Citizens Inc$956,849779%
United Way of East Central Iowa$764,24476%
Central City Iowa$616,4987n/a
North English Community Center Inc$430,896790%
Volunteer Services of Cedar County$295,468722%
Iowa Legal Aid$271,11851%
Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Heritage Area Agency on Aging by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Horizons a Family Service Alliance$9,071,772747%
Aging Services Inc$2,506,803722%
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc$1,004,08370%
Jones County$981,8627n/a
Cedar County Senior Citizens Inc$956,849779%
United Way of East Central Iowa$764,24476%
Central City Iowa$616,4987n/a
North English Community Center Inc$430,896790%
Volunteer Services of Cedar County$295,468722%
Iowa Legal Aid$271,11851%
Benton County Volunteer Program$206,603543%
Elder Services Inc$166,3761n/a
Cedar County Public Health$86,6877n/a
Wesleylife$67,27511%
Southeast Linn Community Center Corp$53,955310%
Milestones Area Agency on Aging$38,50311%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Heritage Area Agency on Aging supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHorizons a Family Service Alliance: $9,071,772 over 7y, 47% of budgetAging Services Inc: $2,506,803 over 7y, 22% of budgetHawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc: $1,004,083 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCedar County Senior Citizens Inc: $956,849 over 7y, 79% of budgetUnited Way of East Central Iowa: $764,244 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetNorth English Community Center Inc: $430,896 over 7y, 90% of budgetVolunteer Services of Cedar County: $295,468 over 7y, 22% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $271,118 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBenton County Volunteer Program: $206,603 over 5y, 43% of budgetWesleylife: $67,275 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSoutheast Linn Community Center Corp: $53,955 over 3y, 10% of budgetMilestones Area Agency on Aging: $38,503 over 1y, 0.7% 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 12.

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.

United Way of Johnson & Washington CountIA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Heritage Area Agency on Aging

How much does Heritage Area Agency on Aging give?
Heritage Area Agency on Aging reported 11 itemized grants totaling $1,472,244, out of $1,717,437 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Heritage Area Agency on Aging fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (77%), Public Benefit (6%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Heritage Area Agency on Aging's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Horizons a Family Service Alliance ($9.1M), Aging Services Inc ($2.5M), Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc ($1.0M).
Does Heritage Area Agency on Aging fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heritage Area Agency on Aging?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Johnson & Washington Count, Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
Where is Heritage Area Agency on Aging based?
Heritage Area Agency on Aging 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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