How much did IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION grant in FY2024?

Education$3.7MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.0MCommunity Improvement$237kPhilanthropy$87kHealth$60kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$28kOther$4.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

2021

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2022

industry

2023

ruralathleticsindustry

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $183k
$10k–50k86 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k6 grants · $637k

$16,833

Median grant

States reached

$1.8B

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.6M · 32 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.6M

$338k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+44%

Still filing today

100%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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

IF
IOWA FFA FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +183% · 31% of their budget
IG
IOWA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC UNION
3× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
IH
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION
2× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +20%

Funded once

IS
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $85k
IM
IOWA MEDIATION SERVICEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +69%
IF
IOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +102%

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.

Iowa Farmers Union

To strengthen the independant family farm through education, legislation and cooperation and to provide iowans with sustainable production, safe food, a clean environment and healthy communities.

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Future Farmers of America

Ffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through ag education.

Youth Development

Bureau County Farm Bureau

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

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Iowa Corn Promotion Board

Creating opportunities for long-term iowa corn grower profitability.

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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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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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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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Clinton County Farm Bureau

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

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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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Illinois Association of Future Farmers

Develop competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increase awareness of the global technological importance of agriculture and it's contribution to our well-being, strengthen the confidence of agricultural students in themselves and…

Youth Development

Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

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

Housing & Shelter

Escambia County Farm Bureau Inc

To work for the education and betterment of agriculture in Escambia County.

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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 Hw Grout Trust. 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.

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 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 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/133

the rest of the field

1,461/29,072

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.

05the grantee network

131 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

131/131

Grantees still filing

102/131

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,222,541Education$3,706,000Recreation & Sports$1,334,000Food & Nutrition$1,007,782Community Improvement$237,000Philanthropy$87,000Health$60,000

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

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 AssociationIA24.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iowa Corn Grower's Association · Iowa Pork Producers Association · GreenState Credit Union · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino · Golf Charitable Foundation · The Growmark Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IOWA FFA FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~27 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 421305468 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IOWA FFA FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 27 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Iowa Farm Bureau Federation?

Find your warmest path to Iowa Farm Bureau Federation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

131 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Iowa Farm Bureau Federation?

More from the funding graph

IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

131 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Iowa Farm Bureau Federation?

More from the funding graph