· Public charity
Iowa Community Action Association
Educating, advocating for, and connecting community action agencies to amplify a unified voice in service of iowans facing economic hardship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,074,397 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,763,565 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,689,168 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $855k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA | $223,864 |
| IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $158,858 |
| SOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (SIEDA) | $143,737 |
| MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $97,085 |
| OPERATION THRESHOLD | $64,860 |
| WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION | $64,376 |
| HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC | $51,790 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA | $50,836 |
| MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC | $43,602 |
| UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY | $41,773 |
| NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION | $35,145 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION | $29,906 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND | $24,365 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION | $17,342 |
| MATURA ACTION CORPORATION | $13,930 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ICIMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +277%
- MCMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +9%
- HAHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +67%
Funded once
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 assist in the provision of a better life for iowa's low-income residents, through assistance to the community action organization located within the state.
Educating, advocating for, and connecting community action agencies to amplify a unified voice in service of iowans facing economic hardship.
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
Community assistance
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
Administers grants and contracts to help the lives of those individuals who fall below the poverty level.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Opportunities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION THRESHOLD INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds North Iowa Community Action Organization ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MATURA ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY 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: Iowa Association of Community Action Directors · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Community Action Association 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.