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Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund
The mission of IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION FUND is to build economic, racial, and environmental justice and grassroots democracy through community organizing, education, advocacy, and electoral politics in iowa and across the country.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
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.
Interfaith alliance is a growing network of people of diverse faiths and beliefs across the country working together to build a resilient democracy and fulfill america's promise of religious freedom and civil rights not just for some, but…
Public interest law firm
The Des Moines Black Liberation Movement (DSM BLM Collective) was formally incorporated on October 3, 2021, though its roots trace back to the days following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. The organization was founded to…
We address the trauma that indigenous peoples and the earth face and work to prevent further colonial capitalist violence by fighting for and building power in indigenous communities through rematriation, healing justice and bringing in a…
One iowa action, the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) advocacy organization, is dedicated to supporting full equality for lgbt individuals living in iowa through grassroots organizing and advocacy.
To bring about civic betterments and social improvements by advocating for public policies that further social and racial justice, affordable health care, equitable taxation, quality education, a healthy climate, and other changes…
Education and Advocacy We are an Organization of Interfaith and Progressive voices dedicated to affirming the moral authority of black women and girls
The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…
The IRA shifts resources and power to people who use drugs. We reduce both the individual and structural harms caused by racialized drug policy through direct action and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indigenous Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Americans for Democratic Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Social Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds URBAN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA ↗
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 Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund 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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