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Humanities Iowa

The mission of HUMANITIES IOWA is to promote understanding and appreciation of the people, communities, culture, and stories of importance to iowa and the nation.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$759kEducation$179kEnvironment$28kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$17kSocial Science$16kYouth Development$10kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $35,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $50,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$438k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SIOUX CITY ART CENTER$10,000
IOWA POETRY ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%IOWA ROCK N' ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $28k → 5%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $13k → 6%CENTRAL COLLEGE: $19k → 8%BOONE COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUMS: $10k → 9%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM: $30k → 11%UNION PACIFIC MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%GERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER: $10k → 12%SIOUX CITY ART CENTER: $10k → 13%MIDWEST LUMBER MUSEUM: $15k → 13%FAIRFIELD CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%IOWA WRITERS HOUSE: $20k → 15%IOWA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $20k → 17%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $10k → 6%CEDAR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 8%MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA: $20k → 9%LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 9%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $27k → 11%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & NATURAL: $10k → 12%TOLERANCE WEEK: $20k → 13%FAIR FIELD PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 14%HTLIC MEDIA INC: $10k → 15%NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW: $16k → 17%THE MOLINE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%SIOUXLAND HISTORICAL RAILROAD: $40k → 7%MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA: $10k → 9%THALER HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $10k → 9%DOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP: $15k → 10%MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM: $20k → 11%PUTNAM MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $10k → 12%TOLERANCE WEEK: $15k → 13%CARTHA: $20k → 15%MAINFRAME STUDIOS: $10k → 10%DUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL: $10k → 11%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $19k → 12%NEW MILE MEDIA ARTS: $10k → 15%IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10k → 10%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $10k → 12%MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE: $10k → 13%NEW MILE MEDIA ARTS: $10k → 15%NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM: $20k → 9%DOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP: $10k → 10%RIVER ACTION: $18k → 12%CULTUREALL: $20k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $20k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $10k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$512k · 18 repeat orgs$618k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
42

Total granted

$512k
$583k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentReligionFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • DC
    Dubuque County Historical Society
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • EA
    Edmundson Art Foundation Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +20%
  • TD
    THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM
    2× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • HC
    HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $39k
  • IR
    IOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $28k · revenue -36%

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
Des Moines Co Historical Society

To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties

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2
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Nebraska Art

The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…

Arts & Culture
4
Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Art Foundation

The foundation owns and maintains an arts center facility in davenport, iowa.

Arts & Culture
6
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
7
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
8
Missoula Art Museum

Public art exhibitions and education. missoula art museum serves the public by engaging audiences and artists in the exploration of contemporary art relevant to the community, state, and region.

Arts & Culture
9
Midwest Museum of Natural History

Mission statement of the midwest museum: encouraging our community's appreciation of natural history using shared experiences through collections, exhibits, and education.

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10
Union County Historical Society

Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.

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11
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
12
Clarke Historical Museum

The acquisition, preservation and educational display of objects relating to the history of eureka and humboldt county's heritage.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African-American Heritage Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pomeroy Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number11%2%<5yr7%12%5–10yr10%18%10–20yr8%16%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr53%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value11%1%<5yr7%7%5–10yr10%21%10–20yr8%17%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr53%25%55yr+

The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
6%
944/16,460

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA — $42,338 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWAIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY — $40,507 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $39,400 · OtherHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGETHE MOLINE FOUNDATION — $26,653 · OtherTHE MOLINE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherCARTHA — $20,000 · OtherIOWA WRITERS HOUSE — $20,000 · OtherIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $18,630 · OtherRIVER ACTION INC — $18,000 · OtherDUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL — $17,700 · OtherSIOUXLAND INSTITUTE OF FILM INC — $17,250 · Other+17 more — $164,289 · Other+17 moreDubuque County Historical Society — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDubuque County Historical SocietyEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $40,290 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation IncVOICES PRODUCTIONS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES PRODUCTIONSTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUMFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $28,700 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART MUSEUMIOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION — $27,500 · Arts & CultureIOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATIONDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $27,000 · Arts & CultureDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ARTDOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $21,900 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNEW MILE MEDIA ARTS — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCULTUREALL INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $17,593 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $75,412 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTOLERANCE WEEK INC — $43,963 · EducationTOLERANCE W…DRAKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVE…IOWA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · EducationIOWA MUSEUM…STEPHENS COLLEGE — $12,974 · EducationSTEPHENS CO…MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationMORNINGSIDE…GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationGRAND VIEW …IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $10,000 · EnvironmentPATHFINDERS RC&D — $6,000 · EnvironmentTEMPLE JUDAH TRUST — $10,000 · ReligionIOWA CITY FOREIGN RELATIONS COUNCIL — $9,530 · InternationalSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC — $9,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$487,267Arts & Culture$480,895Education$116,937Environment$16,000Religion$10,000International$9,530Food & Nutrition$9,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDubuque County Historical Society — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTOLERANCE WEEK INC — $43,963 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $40,290 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $28,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC ASSOCIATION — $27,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $27,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $21,900 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIOWA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCULTUREALL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetRIVER ACTION INC — $18,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL — $17,700 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $17,593 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMIDWEST LUMBER MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCEDAR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $13,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSTEPHENS COLLEGE — $12,974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAINFRAME STUDIOS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNION PACIFIC MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEMPLE JUDAH TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH FILMS — $9,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIOWA CITY FOREIGN RELATIONS COUNCIL — $9,530 over 1y, 23% of budgetSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC — $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM — $7,812 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING PROOF EXHIBIT — $6,610 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $6,354 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATHFINDERS RC&D — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLUFFS ARTS COUNCIL — $5,920 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Roy J Carver Charitab…GreenState Credit Uni…Quad Cities Community…Alliant Energy Founda…MidAmerican Energy Fo…Community Foundation …Meredith Corporation …Rauch Family Foundati…Mary K and Daniel M K…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Doris & Victor Day Fo…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA25.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · GreenState Credit Union · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · MidAmerican Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Doris & Victor Day 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 Humanities Iowa 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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: 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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