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Iowa Economic Alliance

To educate the general public and iowa's policy makers about issues, challenges, and opportunities important to economic development in iowa.

$250k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$539k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Iowa Economic Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Public BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$250k20%
FY20233$158k0%
FY20225$362k60%
FY20212$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$745kEnvironment$100kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
State Government Leadership Foundation$400,00043%
State Solutions Inc$150,00032%
Harvesting Opportunity$150,000215%
Iowa First Fund$150,000214%
American Legislative Exchange Council$44,50030%
Rule of Law Defense Fund$25,00011%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Federation of Iowa InsurersIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Iowa Economic Alliance

How much does Iowa Economic Alliance give?
Iowa Economic Alliance reported 5 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Iowa Economic Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (81%), Environment (11%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are Iowa Economic Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: State Government Leadership Foundation ($400k), State Solutions Inc ($150k), Harvesting Opportunity ($150k).
Does Iowa Economic Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa Economic Alliance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Federation of Iowa Insurers.
Where is Iowa Economic Alliance based?
Iowa Economic Alliance is based in IA.

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 6 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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