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Iowa Farm Bureau Federation

To create a vibrant future for agriculture, farm families and their communities.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$163k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$4.8MRecreation & Sports$3.5MEducation$2.5MYouth Development$577kCommunity Improvement$214kAnimals$165kPhilanthropy$115kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 114 grants below total $2,497,746 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,807,387 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $309,641 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

  • Under $10k22 grants · $183k
  • $10k–50k86 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $637k
$16,833
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$163,000
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION$134,000
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$109,547
IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION$102,000
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$75,079
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$53,434
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$47,776
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$45,339
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$39,234
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$36,576
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$36,256
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$33,876
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$31,130
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$27,519
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$27,174
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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IA
CO
NE
MO
DE
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 46 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
15

Total granted

$10M
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-6%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +1%
  • IH
    IOWA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
  • IF
    IOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +51% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
  • IM
    IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +72%
  • HP
    HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +90%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Inc

To promote, improve and stabilze the agricultural industry in which its member are engaged, by securing greater efficiency in the production, distribution and marketing of agricultural products and to correlate and strengthen the county…

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2
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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3
Wabash County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life

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4
Marion County Farm BureauInc

To increase net income of farmers and ranchers and to improve the quality of rural life and work for the betterment of agriculture.

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5
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
6
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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7
Bureau County Farm Bureau

To provide information and support to improve financial stability and quality of life for our members.

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8
Leon County Farm BureauInc

Leon County works to preserve and promote agriculture and to protect the American Family farming way of life.

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9
Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.

Housing & Shelter
10
Brevard County Farm Bureau Inc

To promote, protect and represent the educational, social and business interests of farmers of the county and to enhance the future of agriculture.

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11
Clinton County Farm Bureau

To educate, represent its members, lead with a clear vision of the future, and assit members to achieve a rewarding lifestyle.

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12
Orange County Farm BureauInc

Farm Bureau is the 'Voice of Agriculture.' We are an organization designed to provide a means by which farmers 'can do together...the job that can't be done alone.'

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and the most unlike its peers is Nuffield International Farming Scholarships - Usa Associate Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 81 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%0%<5yr9%2%5–10yr14%5%10–20yr12%7%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr39%82%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%0%<5yr9%1%5–10yr14%22%10–20yr12%4%20–35yr14%38%35–55yr39%35%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/136
the rest of the field
6%
1,704/29,069

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 136 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/134
Grantees still filing
100/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,358,500 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONIOWA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $2,049,000 · EducationIOWA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONIOWA COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK — $165,000 · Education+4 more — $182,000 · EducationIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC — $1,461,375 · OtherIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INCIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION — $559,500 · OtherIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION+107 more — $2,533,847 · Other+107 moreIOWA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC UNION — $1,275,000 · Recreation & SportsIOWA GIRLS H…IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION — $66,500 · Recreation & SportsIOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION — $893,500 · Food & NutritionIOWA AGRIC…IOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Food & NutritionIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $45,339 · Food & Nutrition+5 more — $118,943 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreTHE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK — $115,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 · Community ImprovementREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA RURAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $17,000 · Community ImprovementTECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA — $14,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $6,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $90,000 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD HILLS INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ED THOMAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $60,000 · Health
Education$4,754,500Other$4,554,722Recreation & Sports$1,341,500Food & Nutrition$1,107,782Community Improvement$277,000Philanthropy$127,000Health$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,358,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $2,049,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC — $1,461,375 over 7y, 31% of budgetIOWA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC UNION — $1,275,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetIOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION — $893,500 over 8y, 21% of budgetIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION — $559,500 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK — $165,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK — $115,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $109,547 over 7y, 17% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $90,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $87,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $75,079 over 7y, 16% of budgetIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION — $66,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNUFFIELD INTERNATIONAL FARMING SCHOLARSHIPS - USA ASSOCIATE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $53,434 over 7y, 18% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A WOODBURY COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $51,376 over 7y, 12% of budgetIOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $47,776 over 7y, 15% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $45,339 over 7y, 16% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $45,037 over 7y, 21% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A HARRISON COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $40,005 over 7y, 10% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $39,234 over 7y, 17% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A CLINTON COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $36,576 over 7y, 15% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $36,256 over 7y, 14% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $33,569 over 7y, 17% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $33,087 over 7y, 17% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A WASHINGTON COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $32,365 over 7y, 13% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A HARDIN COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $31,433 over 7y, 11% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $31,130 over 7y, 15% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A W POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $30,225 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $29,880 over 7y, 17% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $29,126 over 7y, 13% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $29,118 over 7y, 16% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $28,239 over 7y, 18% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $27,519 over 7y, 13% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A CARROLL COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $27,502 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetPROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $27,174 over 7y, 14% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A LYON COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $26,861 over 7y, 19% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A WEBSTER COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $26,485 over 7y, 14% of budgetIOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION D/B/A BUTLER COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $25,906 over 7y, 13% of budgetIowa Farm Bureau Federation — $25,683 over 7y, 12% of budget
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.

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.

Iowa Corn Grower's As…Iowa Pork Producers A…Community Fdn of Grea…Golf Charitable Found…The Growmark Foundati…GreenState Credit Uni…Greater Cedar Rapids …Pella Rolscreen Found…Prairie Meadows Race …Bookey Family Foundat…Alliant Energy Founda…Bnsf Railway Foundati…
Iowa Corn Grower's AssociationIA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iowa Corn Grower's Association · Iowa Pork Producers Association · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · The Growmark Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway 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 Farm Bureau Federation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    8report 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, FY20–24

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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