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HNI Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $407k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine | $200,000 |
| Tri-County YMCA | $100,000 |
| Muscatine Chamber Foundation | $57,000 |
| Building Talent Foundation | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| City of HOPE | $19,877 |
| MCSA | $16,235 |
| Historic Muscatine | $12,420 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines | $9,000 |
| United Way of Muscatine | $8,374 |
| Big BrothersBig Sisters | $6,000 |
| American Red Cross | $5,754 |
| It Takes a Village Animal Rescue | $5,072 |
| Flickinger Learning Center | $5,000 |
| Cedartown United Fund | $1,122 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $804k · revenue +22%- MCMUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +99%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SCScott County YMCAone grant, 2019 · $125k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +53%
- MPMount Pleasant Childcare Centerone grant, 2021 · $52k
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.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Iowa sister states is dedicated to connecting iowans with the world community. our mission is to develop and implement international partnerships and programs that promote the cultural, economic, and other interests of iowa and its friends…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 220 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE - BEYOND 2000 ↗
- Who funds IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Tri-County Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MUSCATINE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARTOWN UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Building Talent Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC ↗
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: KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · The Howe Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Muscatine Iowa · New Hope Foundation · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jensen Private Foundation Inc
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 HNI Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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