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HOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY
The orginization is dedicated to improving quality of life by offering innovative and flexible funding in order to expand affordable housing opportunities within linn county, iowa.
$1.6M
Granted FY2023
12
Grants
1
Communities
$791k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Human Services$2.5MHousing & Shelter$542kCommunity Improvement$70kOther$1.1M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
rehabilitati
2020
rehabilitatilow-incomehsg constrepairconstruction
2021
rehabilitatirent utilityutility deposithsg constcedar rapidsconstruction
2022
rehabhomeowner
2023
rent assitancecedar valleyvalley habitathabitat humanityparticular faithrental rehaboffer
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $342k
- $250k+1 grant · $791k
$16,231
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB$790,582
- NEIGHBORHOOD FINANCE CORPORATION$242,808
- ECICOG$99,084
- CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$42,327
- FOUNDATION 2$42,084
- WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER$16,231
- MARION COMMUNITY BUILD$15,000
- WAYPOINT SERVICES$14,700
- AFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK INC$13,932
- CB CEDAR RAPIDS HOUSING LLP$12,000
- CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER$11,509
- HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AS$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 16 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
13
Total granted
$3.9M
$196k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+72%
+11%
Still filing today
56%
15%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- M2MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB4× · 2020–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +341% · 37% of their budget
- NFNEIGHBORHOOD FINANCE CORPORATION2× · 2022–2023 · $443k · revenue +39%
- WSWAYPOINT SERVICES6× · 2018–2023 · $258k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CCC&R CONSTRUCTIONSone grant, 2021 · $32k
- FSFIVE SEASONS SENIOR HOUSING INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +11%
- COCITY OF CENTRAL CITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
North Central Kansas Housing
Community Improvement
2
Rice County Habitat for Humanity
Build renovate & sell homes to low income families on a no-profit-affordable mortgage
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3
New Community Development Corporation
Provides safe, affordable and quality housing for low and moderate income families in Douglas & Sarpy NE & Pottawattamie County IA, with an emphasis in Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
Housing & Shelter
4
Eden Rehabilitation Suites and
Nursing and rehabilitation services to aging persons.
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5
Miravida Living Inc
Miravida living inc provides management services to its subsidiaries, which are bethel home inc, simeanna apartments inc, simeanna south inc, simeanna iii inc, carmel residence inc, gabriel's villa inc, miravida living foundation inc, and…
Human Services
6
East Central Development Corp
To promote & encourage affordable housing in the five county region which includes cedar, clinton, dubuque, delaware and jackson counties in iowa.
Community Improvement
7
Christian Homes Inc
Provide housing and services to the elderly and infirmed in a manner that provides for the physical, mental, social, and spiritual welfare of the residents.
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8
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
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9
Madison Community Cooperative
Provide low cost cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people in madison, wi.
Education
10
St Mary's Court Housing
To provide affordable housing and related resident services to the elderly.
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11
Neighborhood Housing Services
Neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin is a private not-for-profit development corporation committed to revitalizing featured neighborhoods in the racine and kenosha areas.
Housing & Shelter
12
Homefront Development Corporation
It is the mission of homefront development corporation to assist low to moderate income homeowners through housing rehabilitation, emergency home repair programs, and management of affordable senior rental housing in washington and warren…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marion Economic Development Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$2,456,642Other$1,051,718Housing & Shelter$541,914Community Improvement$70,000
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 MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FINANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds AFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 2 ↗
- Who funds FIVE SEASONS SENIOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COMMUNITY BUILD ↗
- Who funds MARION SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY ↗
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.
Greater Cedar Rapids CommunityIA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Cedar Rapids Community · United Way of East Central Iowa · East Central Iowa Housing Trust Fun · Hawkeye Area Community Action · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Carleen and Eugene Grandon · Housing Trust Fund of Johnson · Mercy Medical Center · GreenState Credit Union · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organisation HOUSING FUND FOR LINN COUNTY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 260467321 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Housing Fund for Linn County?
Find your warmest path to Housing Fund for Linn County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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