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Iowa Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts at a glance

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Iowa Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$764kEnvironment$267kReligion$94kHealth$83kAnimals$61kHuman Services$51kEducation$40kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION$75,000
1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA$18,232
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL$10,000
B'NAI HORIN CHILDREN OF FREEDOM$10,000
IRONDALE ENSEMBLE PROJECT$6,000
NEW JERSEY SCHOLAR PROGRAM$5,000
GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP$2,500
AMAS COMMUNITY THEATRE$1,000
PRATT INSTITUTE$500
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 28 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+6%

Still filing today

82%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsHuman 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

  • CM
    CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $666k · revenue +242%
  • 1F
    1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +118% · 29% of their budget
  • IP
    Irondale Productions Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +155%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND STATISTICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +179%
  • CC
    CITIZENSHIP COUNTS
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -69%
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.

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Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

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2
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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3
Iowa Policy Project

The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…

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4
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
5
Iowa Sister States

Iowa sister states is dedicated to connecting iowans with the world community. our mission is to develop and implement international partnerships and programs that promote the cultural, economic, and other interests of iowa and its friends…

International
6
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.

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7
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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8
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment
9
Iowa City Unesco City of Literature

To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…

Education
10
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

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11
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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12
Iowa Bird Rehabilitation

The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid; the most unlike its peers is Citizenship Counts. 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

37 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. 37 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES: $665,999 · Arts & CultureCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES+4 more: $26,750 · Arts & Culture1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA: $148,753 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF IOWAWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · EnvironmentWHITEROCK CONSERVANC…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $30,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AN…IOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE NETWORK: $19,400 · EnvironmentIOWA INTERFAITH POWE…IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $18,000 · EnvironmentIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL C…+3 more: $11,000 · EnvironmentBNAI HORIN-CHILDREN OF FREEDOM: $72,000 · OtherBNAI HORIN-CHILDREN …Irondale Productions Inc: $47,750 · OtherIrondale Productions…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR…MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $19,000 · OtherMIND AND SPIRIT COUN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL: $10,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherGATEWAY DANCE THEATRE INC: $9,500 · OtherIowa Legal Aid: $15,000 · OtherIowa Legal Aid+13 more: $45,650 · Other+13 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $50,500 · HealthIOWA JEWISH SENIOR LIFE CENTER: $17,800 · HealthELLIPSIS INC: $3,600 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $21,600 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTE: $4,500 · EducationMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $34,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$692,749Environment$257,153Other$253,900Health$72,900Human Services$46,600Education$39,500Animals$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES: $665,999 over 8y, 17% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA: $148,753 over 8y, 29% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $50,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIrondale Productions Inc: $47,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNEW JERSEY SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $21,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE NETWORK: $19,400 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $19,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA JEWISH SENIOR LIFE CENTER: $17,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGEWEST THEATER COMPANY: $12,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $9,750 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGATEWAY DANCE THEATRE INC: $9,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND STATISTICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetIOWA RIVERS REVIVAL: $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENSHIP COUNTS: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION WELCOME HOME AZ INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES FOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Cole-Belin Education …Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …Bookey Family Foundat…Helen J and Thomas Ne…Bravo Greater Des Moi…The West Bancorporati…United Way of Central…Gartner Family Founda…Kyle J & Sharon Kraus…Golf Charitable Found…EMC Insurance Foundat…
Cole-Belin Education FoundationAZ41.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cole-Belin Education Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Helen J and Thomas Nelson Urban Sr Charitable Foundation III · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · EMC Insurance 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 Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%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
    4get no government money at all
    7report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Iowa Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts 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 44 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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