· Public charity
Iowa Association of Regional Councils
The association has worked with member councils of governments to bring new state-wide programs to iowa including affordable housing options and 5-2-1-0 healthy choices count program to 15 different communities.
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
- $10k–50k13 grants · $398k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGION XII COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS | $90,588 |
| PATHFINDERS STRATEGIC PARTNERS | $50,588 |
| IOWA NORTHLAND REGIONAL COUNCIL OF | $50,588 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA PLANNING & DEVELOPM | $50,588 |
| NORTH IOWA AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNM | $40,588 |
| METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING AGENCY | $40,588 |
| EAST CENTRAL IOWA COUNCIL OF GOVERN | $40,588 |
| EAST CENTRAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL ASSO | $40,588 |
| REGION 6 PLANNING COMISSION | $30,588 |
| SOUTHEAST IOWA REGIONAL PLANNING CO | $30,588 |
| BISTATE REGIONAL COMMISSION | $30,588 |
| SOUTHWEST IOWA PLANNING COUNCIL | $30,588 |
| SIOUXLAND INTERSTATE METROPOLITAN P | $30,588 |
| SOUTHERN IOWA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT | $20,588 |
| UPPER EXPLORELAND REGIONAL PLANNING | $20,588 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISOUTHERN IOWA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT9× · 2017–2025 · $398k
- RXREGION XII COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $299k · revenue +228%
- SISIOUXLAND INTERSTATE METROPOLITAN P9× · 2017–2025 · $226k
Funded once
- CMCAPTURE MARKETING SOLUTIONSone grant, 2022 · $28k
- SISOUTHERN IOWA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTSone grant, 2017 · $11k
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.
1 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. 1 of the 18 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 Association of Regional Councils funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Association of Regional Councils. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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