· Private foundation
Interstates Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT | $32,677 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS | $30,000 |
| WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY | $25,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $18,458 |
| ROCK VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $18,458 |
| RISING ARROWS INC | $16,000 |
| BRIDGING THE GAP | $15,000 |
| ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA DAKOTAS | $13,000 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| SIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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
- FCFAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +58%
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $109k · revenue +61%
- DSDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- DSDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $31k
- NFNCC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
- SCSIOUX CENTER MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
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…
End hunger together.
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Commercial Chaos for a Cure. 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 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
103 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 268 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD ↗
- Who funds WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sioux Center Health ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds RISING ARROWS INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Vogel Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Demco Charitable Foundation · Premier Communications Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Timothy J Sandbulte Family Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation
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 Interstates Foundation 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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