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Intermediaryed (F/K/A Act Inc)

(see schedule o)

$226k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$5.4MCivil Rights$601kCommunity Improvement$495kPhilanthropy$437kPublic Benefit$100kYouth Development$16kArts & Culture$15kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $115,452 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $225,976 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,524 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$444M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON COUNTY$70,000
IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION$40,000
ACT EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SERVICES INC$5,452
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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $10k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
OR
IA
CA
CO
DC
AL
FL

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 8 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$3.7M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +14%
  • IC
    IOWA CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +9%
  • Civic Nation
    2× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • PE
    PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $2.5M · revenue -100%
  • AF
    ACT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $601k
  • CR
    CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +8%

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
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

2
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

3
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
4
Upper Iowa University

Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.

Education
5
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

6
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc

Ijag ensures a future iowa where youth are resilient and well-prepared with skills, purpose, and opportunities. through collaborative partnerships and innovative approaches, we bridge the gap between education and employment to build…

Youth Development
7
Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation

To deliver programs and to conduct research for the benefit of students, educators, emerging leaders and employers that expand their knowledge and enhance their individual responsibility and leadership skills.

Youth Development
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
10
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

11
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.

12
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is Professional Examination Services. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way FederationsPublic School District Foun…Homeless Services & ShelterChild and Family ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…At-Risk Youth MentoringPublic University Foundatio…Classical Music EnsemblesGovernment Accountability R…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACT EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SERVICES INC — $2,509,750 · OtherACT EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SERVICES INCPROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION SERVICES — $2,500,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION SERVICESACT FOUNDATION — $601,077 · OtherACT FOUNDATIONIOWA CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC — $225,000 · Other+9 more — $341,200 · Other+9 moreUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT — $436,910 · PhilanthropyCivic Nation — $200,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $13,830 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $10,500 · EducationGRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION — $10,000 · EducationEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · EducationARENACO — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES GANG — $5,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesSt Augustine Society Inc — $7,455 · Housing & Shelter
Other$6,177,027Philanthropy$436,910Education$269,330Recreation & Sports$150,000Arts & Culture$20,500Human Services$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,455

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACT EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SERVICES INC — $2,509,750 over 5y, 100% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT — $436,910 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetIOWA CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC — $225,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCivic Nation — $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $160,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetARENACO — $150,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE — $70,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $13,830 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Augustine Society Inc — $7,455 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTANAGER PLACE — $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES GANG — $5,500 over 1y, 3.7% 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 Foundation of Johnson CountyIA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Johnson County · GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Gary Wicklund Family Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Intermediaryed (F/K/A Act 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 25 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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