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Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County

The organization is organized exclusively for the purpose of expanding and strengthening efforts to address the housing, shelter and service needs of lowincome residents of johnson county, iowa.

$584k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Housing & Shelter$2.0MCrime & Legal$28kHuman Services$25k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$40,640
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHELTER HOUSE$332,906
CONNERLY CONSTRUCTION LLC$69,095
CEDAR RIDGE CONSTRUCTION LLC$47,500
L & M CONSTRUCTION$40,640
RANDY YAKISH CONSTRUCTION LLC$31,300
SHELTER HOUSE$30,252
R & P CONSTRUCTION$16,500
IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,691
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OMNI EXTERIORS LLC: $15k → 5%KITCHENS BY DESIGN: $17k → 8%R & P CONSTRUCTION: $17k → 9%SCHILLING CONSTRUCTION LLC: $17k → 10%ACE CONTRACTING: $34k → 15%R & P CONSTRUCTION: $16k → 9%INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $20k → 15%L&M CONSTRUCTION: $65k → 9%ACE CONTRACTING: $18k → 15%L&M CONSTRUCTION: $24k → 9%INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $20k → 15%L&M CONSTRUCTION: $13k → 9%ACE CONTRACTING: $17k → 15%DEFINITIVE HOME DESIGN LLC: $17k → 9%INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $16k → 15%CONNERLY CONSTRUCTION LLC: $69k → 9%ACE CONTRACTING: $17k → 15%L & M CONSTRUCTION: $41k → 9%INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $12k → 15%CONNERLEY CONSTRUCTION: $32k → 9%PARKER PLUMBING & MOBILE HOME REPAI: $14k → 15%CONNERLEY CONSTRUCTION: $17k → 9%MG'S REPAIR: $12k → 15%XTREME HOME REPAIR: $15k → 9%RANDY YAKISH CONSTRUCTION LLC: $31k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $333k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROG: $250k → 15%HOLM INNOVATIONS: $16k → 9%SHELTER HOUSE: $111k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $89k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $87k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $64k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $40k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $30k → 15%SHELTER HOUSE: $28k → 15%IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $27k → 15%IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $27k → 15%IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $26k → 15%CITY OF IOWA CITY: $24k → 15%RAV SERVICES: $17k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROG: $16k → 15%RANDY WESSLING CONSTRUCTION: $16k → 15%IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $16k → 15%IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 15%IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $12k → 15%ANDINO CONSTRUCTION: $11k → 15%CEDAR RIDGE CONSTRUCTION LLC: $48k → 15%DUWA CONSTRUCTION AND ROOFING: $16k → 15%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 13 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$1.8M
$191k

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

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

  • SH
    SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2025 · $782k · revenue +318%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
    3× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +115%
  • IV
    IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHILLING CONSTRUCTION LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • KB
    KITCHENS BY DESIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • RS
    RAV SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $781,994 · OtherSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICESDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $275,000 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAML&M CONSTRUCTION: $142,405 · OtherL&M CONSTRUCTIONCONNERLY CONSTRUCTION LLC: $130,549 · OtherCONNERLY CONSTRUCTION LLCIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $122,880 · OtherIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCACE CONTRACTING: $85,482 · Other+23 more: $427,253 · Other+23 moreINSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $68,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,965,563Crime & Legal$68,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $781,994 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $275,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $122,880 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetINSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $68,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetHOMEBUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF IOWA CITY: $15,538 over 2y, 2.7% 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 SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF IOWA CITY ↗

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.

East Central Iowa Hou…Housing Fund for Linn…Community Foundation …GreenState Credit Uni…Alliant Energy Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Amazonsmile Foundation
East Central Iowa Housing Trust FunIA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Central Iowa Housing Trust Fun · Housing Fund for Linn County · Community Foundation of Johnson County · GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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 30 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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