· Public charity
Iowa College Foundation
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $1,371,761 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,424,051 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,290 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE | $79,154 |
| DORDT COLLEGE | $69,643 |
| GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY | $68,311 |
| WARTBURG COLLEGE | $67,567 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $67,543 |
| ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY | $65,883 |
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $63,689 |
| LUTHER COLLEGE | $63,082 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE | $62,361 |
| WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY | $61,127 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $60,266 |
| SIMPSON COLLEGE | $60,256 |
| BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY | $58,789 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE | $58,695 |
| BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY | $57,928 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
DRAKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue +20%- MUMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $570k · revenue +28%
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $567k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KCKirkwood Community Collegeone grant, 2019 · $7k
- BUBellevue Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +98%
- NMNEBRASKA METHODIST COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +31%
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.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland University and the most unlike its peers is Iowa Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 76 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 41 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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: Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County · Marguerite V Brown · W E Ruebush Foundation · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust · Dean J King 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 Iowa College 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.