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Iowa Health Foundation

Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$90MHuman Services$2.3MEducation$85k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $13M
$100,484
Median grant
1
States reached
$223M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION$12,220,147
UNITYPOINT AT HOME$356,935
IOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AUXILIARY$100,484
UNITYPOINT CLINIC$28,368
DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC$22,236
CLARKE COUNTY HOSPITAL$8,667
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $256k → 5%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $14.6M → 10%CLARKE COUNTY HOSPITAL: $9k → 12%UNITYPOINT CLINIC: $25k → 5%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $12.6M → 10%CLARKE COUNTY HOSPITAL: $7k → 12%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $12.2M → 10%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $10.6M → 10%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $10.4M → 10%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $10.3M → 10%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $9.7M → 10%CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $8.8M → 10%IOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $100k → 10%DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $29k → 10%YOUNKER REHAB THERAPY SERVICES LLC: $22k → 10%DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $22k → 10%DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $13k → 10%IOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $13k → 10%YOUNKER REHAB THERAPY SERVICES LLC: $12k → 10%IOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $12k → 10%YOUNKER REHAB THERAPY SERVICES LLC: $11k → 10%DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $10k → 10%DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $10k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $394k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $363k → 10%UNITYPOINT CLINIC: $59k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $357k → 10%IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $31k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $272k → 10%UNITYPOINT CLINIC: $28k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $246k → 10%UNITYPOINT CLINIC: $25k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $215k → 10%UNITYPOINT CLINIC: $8k → 10%UNITYPOINT AT HOME: $188k → 10%W H II LTD: $193k → 10%EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $31k → 10%EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $24k → 10%W H III INC: $18k → 10%EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $2k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92M · 8 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against -47% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$92M
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
-47%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

  • CI
    CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $89M · revenue +63%
  • UA
    UNITYPOINT AT HOME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +63%
  • IP
    IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • WH
    W H II LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $193k · revenue -61% · 59% of their budget
  • WH
    W H III INC
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -47%
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
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
2
Iowa Health System

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
3
Unitypoint Health At Work

Unitypoint health at work provides onsite health and wellness services designed for improved patient experience, reduced healthcare cost and improved population health.

Health
4
Unity Healthcare

The mission of trinity-muscatine is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
5
Iowa Health Foundation

Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.

Health
6
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
7
Northwest Iowa Hospital Corporation

The mission of northwest iowa hospital corporation, d/b/a st. luke's regional medical center, is to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.

Health
8
Allen Health Systems Inc

To improve the health care of the people and communities we serve.

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9
Unitypoint Health-Marshalltown Foundation

Developing relationships and financial resources to support unitypoint health's mission of providing healthcare that meets the needs of communities its serves

Unclassified
10
Unitypoint Health-Marshalltown

The mission of unitypoint health-marshalltown is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
11
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Trinity Medical Center

The mission of trinity medical center is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Des Moines Area Medical Education Consortium 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. 8 of the 10 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $89,256,972 · HealthCENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION+3 more: $359,500 · HealthUNITYPOINT AT HOME: $2,290,476 · OtherW H II LTD: $192,779 · Other+4 more: $164,665 · Other
Health$89,616,472Other$2,647,920

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $89,256,972 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUNITYPOINT AT HOME: $2,290,476 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetW H II LTD: $192,779 over 1y, 59% of budgetIOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $176,474 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $125,766 over 3y, 37% of budgetDES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $84,889 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetEYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $57,260 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetW H III INC: $18,431 over 1y, 6.9% 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.

  • Who funds CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITYPOINT AT HOME ↗
  • Who funds W H II LTD ↗
  • Who funds IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES AREA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds W H III INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 10 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.

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