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Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the IOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for all.

$337k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$60kHuman Services$60kEmployment$25kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $161,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $337,336 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $176,136 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KICK IT FORWARD INC$50,000
INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION$12,000
TAPESTRY FARMS$10,000
NIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT$10,000
FOOD BANK OF IOWA$10,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$10,000
GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$10,000
TIME FOR TOTS INC$8,700
HIS HANDS FREE CLINIC$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIME FOR TOTS INC: $9k → 9%TAPESTRY FARMS: $10k → 12%IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $20k → 10%IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $15k → 10%IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 10%IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
2
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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3
Iowans for Ukrainians
Philanthropy
4
Iowa Rural Development Council

Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration

Community Improvement
5
Iowa City Area Development Group Inc

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…

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6
Iowa City Downtown Self Supported Municipal Improvement District

Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.

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7
Iowa Skilled Trades

Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa

Education
8
Alliance for a Better Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
9
Iowa Association of Community Action Directors

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.

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10
Iowa Farmers Union Education Foundation

To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.

Education
11
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
12
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Community Action Association; the most unlike its peers is Kick It Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $45,000 · Human ServicesIOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC …IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesIOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATIO…TAPESTRY FARMS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FARMSTIME FOR TOTS INC: $8,700 · Human ServicesTIME FOR TOTS INCIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $62,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUN…INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE F…ATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC: $10,000 · EducationATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCC…KICK IT FORWARD: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsKICK IT FORWARDNIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · OtherNIAD CENTER …MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF IOWA: $10,000 · OtherMULTICULTURA…CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN CO…MAUI COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $6,000 · OtherMAUI COUNTY …UNITED WAYS OF IOWA: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHIS HANDS MINISTRIES: $5,500 · Health
Human Services$93,700Education$92,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Other$36,000Community Improvement$25,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF IOWA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIME FOR TOTS INC: $8,700 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

GreenState Credit Uni…Greenstate Foundation
GreenState Credit UnionIA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · Greenstate Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Iowa Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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