· Public charity
Iowa Chapter of the Foundation for North American
Wildlife population and habitat enhancement
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $802k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah Wild Sheep Foundation | $142,500 |
| Utah Wild Sheep Foundation | $142,500 |
| Wyoming Wildlife Fund | $135,000 |
| Prophet Muskwa Ungulate Enhancement | $120,000 |
| Nebraska Game & Parks | $80,857 |
| Youth of America Charity | $65,540 |
| Youth of America Charity Foundation | $65,540 |
| Alaska Wild Sheep Foundation | $50,000 |
| Alaska Professional Hunters Assoc | $20,000 |
| Alaska Professional Hunters Assn | $20,000 |
| Wild Sheep Foundation | $14,650 |
| Iowa Department of Natural Resource | $13,500 |
| Pass It On Scholastic Shooting Sp | $7,500 |
| Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation | $5,000 |
| Idaho Wild Sheep 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 US giving — 77% of grant dollars ($3.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 23% of all-years giving ($1.1M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
Grants abroad, by region — $120k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Wildlife population enchancement
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +64% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- UWUTAH WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $819k · revenue +80%
- APALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTER ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $182k · revenue +17%
- WSWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $93k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- NNNavajo Nation Dept of Gae & Fishone grant, 2020 · $52k
- NNNavajo Nation Dept of Game & Fishone grant, 2021 · $45k
- SOState of Nebraska Game & Parksone grant, 2019 · $28k
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.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Promote and preserve bighorn sheep
To promote the procurement and release of big game species, to assist with the improvement of habitat in NE Nevada area, to assist state and local wildlife management authorities, and to raise funds to support these and related purposes.
To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
Wildlife Conservation
Arizona Wildlife Federation's purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation, propagation, development and management of fish, game and other wildlife; to promote and encourage the wise use, conservation and restoration of waters,…
Idaho trappers association is to preserve a heritage of trapping with promotion of education and sound conservation for balance of fur harvesting while preventing waste of idaho's natural resources.
To promote and enhance increasing populations of indigenous wild sheep on the north american continent, to safeguard against the decline or extinction of such species, and to fund programs for professional management of these populations,…
To promote and protect Wildlife
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Sheep Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brothers in Arms Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 43 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
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 UTAH WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS IN ARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP ↗
- Who funds IDAHO WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep 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.
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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 Iowa Chapter of the Foundation for North American 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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