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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.

$46k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$42k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$46k56%
FY20248$34k13%
FY202315$46k53%
FY202211$52k45%
FY20217$45k43%
FY20207$11k86%
FY20198$18k63%
FY20186$17k67%
78% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$104kCommunity Improvement$41kHousing & Shelter$12kPhilanthropy$11kEducation$9kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSumner Daycare & Learning Center Inc: $51,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLittle Knights Learning Center: $30,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetBuchanan County Economic Development Commission: $24,080 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetHillcrest Home Memorial Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSunflower Childcare Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDecorah Athletic Booster Club: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOelwein Event Corporation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWinneshiek County Agricultural Association: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSunset Community Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBremer County Fair Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMustang Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHeartland Acres Agribition Center Inc: $1,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHelping Services for Youth and Families Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillcrest Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFayette County Agricultural Society: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBuchanan Council on Aging Buchanan Co: $750 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDecorah Area Chamber of Commerce: $450 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuchanan County Health Trust Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUpper Iowa University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

About Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $46,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Community Improvement (15%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sumner Daycare & Learning Center Inc ($51k), Little Knights Learning Center ($30k), Buchanan County Economic Development Commission ($24k).
Does Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IA.

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 48 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-PF 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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