How much does HNI Charitable Foundation give?

HNI Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $520,188 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does HNI Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (24%), Philanthropy (20%).

Who are HNI Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Muscatine Community Y ($1.2M), Iowa State University Foundation ($804k), United Way of Muscatine Iowa ($551k).

Does HNI Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does HNI Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is HNI Charitable Foundation based?

HNI Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

HNI Charitable Foundation

HNI Charitable Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

HNI Charitable Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as HNI Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION, Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine, The Howe Foundation.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$520k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

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$1.8MHuman Services$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.3MHealth$899kPublic Benefit$349kYouth Development$260kCommunity Improvement$151kArts & Culture$146kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $45k
$10k–50k4 grants · $69k
$50k–250k4 grants · $407k

$5,754

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.4M · 101 repeat orgs$714k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

107

Total granted

$5.4M

$529k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+12%

Still filing today

41%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2022 · $804k · revenue +22%
MC
MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +99%
MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +13%

Funded once

SC
Scott County YMCA
one grant, 2019 · $125k
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +53%
MP
Mount Pleasant Childcare Center
one grant, 2021 · $52k

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.

Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified

Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition

Mid-Iowa Health Foundation

Religion

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

—

State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education

Iowa Sister States

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…

International

State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

—

Iowa Sports Foundation

The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.

—

Common Good Iowa

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.

—

Iowa Health Foundation

Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.

Health

United Way of Clinton County Iowa

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/96

Grantees still filing

59/96

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,243,802Human Services$1,453,912Education$1,136,100Philanthropy$779,928Health$58,482Employment$53,279Arts & Culture$40,308

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

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.

KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATIONIA43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 HNI Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HNI Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

05Through Plinth

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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