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Iowa Area Development Group Community Foundation
The mission of the IOWA AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to foster economic development and community betterment by providing public policy research and promotion; education and training; and community based and guided philanthropy.
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64% of Iowa Area Development Group Community Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Fdn Of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES | $35,000 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY FOUNDATION (CO COMM FDN GTR DES MOINES) | $10,000 |
| KEOKUK COUNTY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 51% of Iowa Area Development Group Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 12 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Iowa Area Development Group Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Area Development Group Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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