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Iowa Environmental Council

To provide a safe, healthy environment and sustainable future for iowa

$69k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$57k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$57,427
Largest grant, FY2022
$57,427
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Iowa Environmental Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentOther
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
FY20221$57k100%
FY20211$5k100%
FY20201$13k0%
FY20191$28k0%
FY20187$107k0%
FY20177$139kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$350k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa Policy Project$136,853413%
Clean Energy Districts of Iowa$57,427134%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest$48,33320%
Winneshiek Energy District$24,33226%
Iowa Community Action Association$23,34721%
Iowa Interfaith Power and Light Iowa Faith and Climate Network$19,66737%
Center for Rural Affairs$17,99920%
1000 Friends of Iowa$17,250215%
Common Good Iowa$5,22511%

Where it is load-bearing

Iowa Environmental Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIowa Policy Project: $136,853 over 4y, 13% of budgetClean Energy Districts of Iowa: $57,427 over 1y, 34% of budgetEnvironmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest: $48,333 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWinneshiek Energy District: $24,332 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetIowa Community Action Association: $23,347 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIowa Interfaith Power and Light Iowa Faith and Climate Network: $19,667 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCenter for Rural Affairs: $17,999 over 2y, 0.2% of budget1000 Friends of Iowa: $17,250 over 2y, 15% of budgetCommon Good Iowa: $5,225 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Clean Energy District…United States Energy …
The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Clean Energy Districts of Iowa · United States Energy 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.

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How do I get to Iowa Environmental Council?

Find your warmest path to Iowa Environmental Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Iowa Environmental Council

How much does Iowa Environmental Council give?
Iowa Environmental Council reported 1 itemized grants totaling $57,427, out of $68,861 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Iowa Environmental Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Iowa Environmental Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Iowa Policy Project ($137k), Clean Energy Districts of Iowa ($57k), Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest ($48k).
Does Iowa Environmental Council fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa Environmental Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Clean Energy Districts of Iowa, United States Energy Foundation.
Where is Iowa Environmental Council based?
Iowa Environmental Council 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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $34k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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