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Iowa Food Bank Association at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Iowa Food Bank Association

To support the feeding america food banks and their affiliates serving iowa in their work to ensure that sufficient food is accessible to all.

$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$146k
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$5.9MHuman Services$972k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $146k
$39,570
Median grant
2
States reached
$418k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF IOWA$145,620
HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$44,610
RIVER BEND FOOD BANK$39,570
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK$35,603
FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND$19,320
FOOD BANK OF THE HEARTLAND$15,660
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HACAP FOOD RESERVOIR: $881k → 9%HACAP FOOD RESERVOIR: $91k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $45k → 9%HACAP FOOD RESERVIOR: $17k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $15k → 9%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 6 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$6.9M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman 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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWA
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +228%
  • HA
    HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +72%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $606k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • SS
    ST STEPHENS FOODBANK
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
5
Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank

To collect and purchase food and basic necessities for distribution to disadvantaged people in the north iowa area. individuals served - 25,399

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank of Central Louisiana

To alleviate hunger in central louisiana

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7
Flathead Food Bank Inc

The Flathead Food Bank strives to elimnate hunger in the Flathead Valley through collaborative partnerships creating effective solutions to connect and strengthen individuals, families and the community through access to healthy nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc

The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
10
Des Moines Area Food Bank

The des moines area food bank provides emergency food assistance to families in need.

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11
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Southern Iowa; the most unlike its peers is Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc. 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

8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $3,892,451 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWARIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $522,976 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIRNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $467,187 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANKHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,047,991 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMM…FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $606,255 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SI…FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $336,502 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR T…+2 more: $25,290 · Other
Food & Nutrition$4,882,614Human Services$1,047,991Other$968,047

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 budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $3,892,451 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,047,991 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $606,255 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $522,976 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $467,187 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $336,502 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA: $12,645 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetST STEPHENS FOODBANK: $12,645 over 1y, 2.9% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Food Bank Association?

    Find your warmest path to Iowa Food Bank Association 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 8 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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