· Public charity
Iowa Health Foundation
Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- CICENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $89M · revenue +63%
- UAUNITYPOINT AT HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +63%
- IPIOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- WHW H II LTDone grant, 2022 · $193k · revenue -61% · 59% of their budget
- WHW H III INCone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
Unitypoint health at work provides onsite health and wellness services designed for improved patient experience, reduced healthcare cost and improved population health.
The mission of trinity-muscatine is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.
To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.
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.
To improve the health care of the people and communities we serve.
Developing relationships and financial resources to support unitypoint health's mission of providing healthcare that meets the needs of communities its serves
The mission of unitypoint health-marshalltown is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve through healing, caring and teaching.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of trinity medical center is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation and 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.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Iowa Health Foundation 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.
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.