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Iowa Environmental Council

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

$69k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $57,427, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,861 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,434 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.
$57,427
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAN ENERGY DISTRICTS OF IOWA$57,427
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $8k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$288k · 7 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$288k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-23%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $48k · revenue +72%
  • II
    IOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE NETWORK
    3× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +262%

Funded once

  • CG
    COMMON GOOD IOWA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Future Energy Iowa

Promoting policies to the general public and policy makers related to clean energy, energy efficiency, and the energy sector.

Public Benefit
2
Iowa Environmental Council

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

Environment
3
Iowa Business for Clean Energy

To educate the general public, the business community and policymakers on clean energy, and in particular on how the electric grid is currently managed, and issues that will impact the availability of clean energy, energy efficiency and…

Environment
4
Engage Iowa

To conduct and distribute research, studies and analysis relating to education, environmental and economic issues in the state of iowa to help shape public policy.

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5
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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6
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

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8
Clean Grid Alliance (Fna Wind On the Wires)

Our mission is to advance renewable energy in the midwest by applying technical expertise and building support to expand markets. we focus on educating key decision makers through technical, communications and media work, and public…

Environment
9
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

To empower and unite grassroots people of all races to take control of their communities; involve them in identifying problems and needs; and in taking action to address them; and be a vehicle for social, economic and environmental justice.

Community Improvement
10
Iowa Rural Water Association

To provide the highest quality leadership in support of iowa's water and wastewater industries through the provision of technical assistance, training, education, legislative, regulatory and public affairs, and assistance in economic…

Public Benefit
11
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

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12
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund

The mission of iowa citizens for community improvement action fund is to build economic, racial, and environmental justice and grassroots democracy through community organizing, education, advocacy, and electoral politics in iowa and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Community Action Association; the most unlike its peers is Winneshiek Energy District. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEAN ENERGY DISTRICTS OF IOWA: $57,427 · EnvironmentCLEAN ENERGY DISTRICTS OF IOWAENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $48,333 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWESTWINNESHIEK ENERGY DISTRICT: $24,332 · EnvironmentWINNESHIEK ENERGY DISTRICTIOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE NETWORK: $19,667 · EnvironmentIOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE…1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA: $17,250 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF IOWAIOWA POLICY PROJECT: $136,853 · OtherIOWA POLICY PROJECTCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS: $17,999 · OtherCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS+1 more: $5,225 · OtherIOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $23,347 · Human Services
Environment$167,009Other$160,077Human Services$23,347

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 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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