· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LKLITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER4× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +303%
- 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%
- DADECORAH ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DECORAH ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Oelwein Event Corporation ↗
- Who funds WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSET COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BREMER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 Buchanan Council on Aging Buchanan Co ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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