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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $35,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $50,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$438k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
IOWA POETRY ASSOCIATION$10,000
SIOUX CITY ART CENTER$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%DOWNTOWN EVENTS GROUP: $10k → 10%DUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL: $10k → 11%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $19k → 12%NEW MILE MEDIA ARTS: $10k → 15%MAINFRAME STUDIOS: $10k → 10%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $10k → 12%MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE: $10k → 13%NEW MILE MEDIA ARTS: $10k → 15%NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM: $20k → 9%IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

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

+46%
+11%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
6
Museum of Art Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
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
Clarke Historical Museum

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

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African-American Heritage Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureNEW MILE MEDIA ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $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…IOWA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · EducationIOWA MUSEUM…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVE…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIOWA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCULTUREALL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetUNION PACIFIC MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTEMPLE JUDAH TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINFRAME STUDIOS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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