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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$4.6MHuman Services$393kEnvironment$339kCommunity Improvement$25kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $734,636, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,282,681 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $548,045 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $673k
$113,295
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER$204,364
VARIOUS OTHER GRANTS$165,126
THE WATERLOO GROUP$120,000
WAYPOINT SERVICES$113,295
ECICOG$70,533
CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$36,318
HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AS$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $59k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $23k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $12k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $113k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $84k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $70k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $47k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $40k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $37k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $35k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $30k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $15k → 9%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $1.0M → 9%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $791k → 9%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $285k → 9%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $44k → 9%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $28k → 9%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 17 repeat orgs$358k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$5.2M
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+29%

Still filing today

53%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • M2
    MATTHEW 25
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +719% · 37% of their budget
  • WD
    WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $568k · revenue +65%
  • NF
    Neighborhood Finance Corporation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $531k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • F2
    FOUNDATION 2 INC
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue -7%
  • CC
    C&R CONSTRUCTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $32k
  • FS
    FIVE SEASONS SENIOR HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +32%
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.

1
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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3
Safe Harbour Inc

Safe harbour provides a continuum of housing and supportive services for homeless and nearly homeless individuals and families in our communities.

Housing & Shelter
4
Humility Homes and Services Inc

Humility homes and services, inc. is committed to ending homelessness by offering housing opportunities and supportive services in the greater quad cities area.

Housing & Shelter
5
Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc

HOUSING COUNSELING SERVICES - Our Housing Counseling Program supports delivery of a wide variety of housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, and low-to moderate-income renters. The primary objectives of the program are to…

Human Services
6
Equity Homes
Housing & Shelter
7
Habitat for Humanity of Sumner Coun

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to relive our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity of sumner county…

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8
Southwest Iowa Housing Trust Fund

Provide safe, affordable housing and expand housing opportunities in the seven county region it serves.

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9
Community Housing Council
Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Initiative Partnership Inc

Housing initiative partnership, inc. (hip) develops innovative affordable housing, revitalizes neighborhoods and equips people to achieve their housing and financial goals. hip's vision is that every person lives in high-quality affordable…

Housing & Shelter
11
Neighborhood Housing Services of the Black Hills Inc

Assist in providing decent, safe, and affordable housing & revitalizing neighborhoods to improve the quality of life in our communities.

Housing & Shelter
12
I58 Inc

To empower lower to moderate income individuals through community revitalization initiatives such as housing, neighborhood beautification, and family services.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MATTHEW 25: $2,163,579 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25WAYPOINT SERVICES: $470,795 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICESCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $131,273 · Human ServicesWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $568,319 · OtherWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INCEAST CENTRAL IOWA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: $339,021 · OtherEAST CENTRAL IOWA COUNCIL OF GOVERNME…CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $298,318 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYVARIOUS OTHER GRANTS: $185,530 · OtherVARIOUS OTHER GRANTS+19 more: $434,579 · Other+19 moreNeighborhood Finance Corporation: $531,336 · Housing & ShelterNeighborhood Fi…WATERLOO HOUSING TRUST FUND: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterWATERLOO HOUSIN…AFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK INC: $69,932 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABLE HOUS…FIVE SEASONS SENIOR HOUSING: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $11,025 · Housing & ShelterHope Community Development Assoc: $171,406 · Community Improvement
Human Services$2,765,647Other$1,825,767Housing & Shelter$762,293Community Improvement$171,406

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMATTHEW 25: $2,163,579 over 6y, 37% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $568,319 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetNeighborhood Finance Corporation: $531,336 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $470,795 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $298,318 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetHope Community Development Assoc: $171,406 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $131,273 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK INC: $69,932 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION 2 INC: $42,084 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIVE SEASONS SENIOR HOUSING: $30,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMARION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMARION SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $11,025 over 1y, 27% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
  • Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Finance Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds Hope Community Development Assoc ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds AFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC ↗
  • Who funds FIVE SEASONS SENIOR HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds MARION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds MARION SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY ↗

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.

Mercy Medical CenterGreater Cedar Rapids …Alliant Energy Founda…East Central Iowa Hou…Hawkeye Area Communit…Rohde Family Charitab…Carleen and Eugene Gr…Housing Trust Fund of…The Hall-Perrine Foun…United Fire Group Fou…The Accel FoundationDupaco RW Hoefer Foun…
Mercy Medical CenterIA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mercy Medical Center · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · East Central Iowa Housing Trust Fun · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Housing Fund for Linn County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Housing Fund for Linn County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    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 32 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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