· Private foundation
Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sumner Daycare and Learning Center Inc | $17,000 |
| Northeast Iowa Community Foundation | $8,000 |
| Sunflower Child Care Center | $5,000 |
| Bremer County Fair Association | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,250 |
| Buchanan County Economic Development Commission | $3,000 |
| Oelwein Event Corporation | $2,500 |
| Sumner Emergency Medical Services | $1,450 |
| Waucoma Fire Association | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LKLITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER4× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +444%
- MFMUSTANG FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +232%
- FCFAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- SDSumner Day Care & Learningone grant, 2022 · $15k
- HHHILLCREST HOME MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -96%
- SCSUNSET COMMUNITY THEATRE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote local businesses and business development in fairfield, iowa
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
Coordinate area economic development
The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.
Focused on creating a multi-use campus focused on agriculture, commerce, entertainment, cultural activities and educational interest by providing exhibitions, conventions, trade shows, public gatherings, youth activities and other…
Promotion of economic growth in jasper county, iowa
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
Engage in, assist and contribute to the support of economical and industrial development of the city of graettinger, iowa, including the assistance, encouragement and preservation of existing businesses and industries
Commuity economic development and industrial development in adams county iowa.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
To provide a source of daycare to the citizens of sanborn, iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Decorah Athletic Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 35% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 SUMNER DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST HOME MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSET COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DECORAH ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Oelwein Event Corporation ↗
- Who funds WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BREMER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTANG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT SEMS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMNER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ACRES AGRIBITION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST HOME ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Buchanan Council on Aging Buchanan Co ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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