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Iowa Health System

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

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$187MHuman Services$254kYouth Development$101kEducation$93kRecreation & Sports$40kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $60,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $68,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE$25,000
HEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC$20,000
MY CITY MY HEALTH INC$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VALORFIT: $10k → 7%CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUITY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%IWLC DBA WOMEN LEAD CHANGE: $75k → 9%IWLC DBA WOMEN LEAD CHANGE: $75k → 9%IWLC DBA WOMEN LEAD CHANGE: $69k → 9%IWLC: $35k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$133M · 8 repeat orgs$54M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
23

Total granted

$133M
$54M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • IP
    IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $133M · revenue +2%
  • IH
    IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +668%
  • I
    IWLC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $254k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CI
    CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $17M · revenue +45%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S METHODIST HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $14M · revenue +24%
  • MM
    METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2020 · $8.5M · revenue +12%

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.

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
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
4
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
5
Unity Healthcare

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

Health
6
Iowa Hospital Association

The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…

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7
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

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

Health
8
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
9
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
10
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

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

Health
11
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

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

Health
12
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Valorfit. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community CentersVeteran Support ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Cancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health Centers
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 36 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%3%<5yr9%7%5–10yr14%21%10–20yr12%17%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr39%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%0%<5yr9%0%5–10yr14%0%10–20yr12%73%20–35yr14%0%35–55yr39%27%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
6%
1,704/29,172

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $132,632,216 · HealthIOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATIONCENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $16,571,917 · HealthCENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATIONST LUKE'S METHODIST HOSPITAL — $13,962,385 · HealthST LUKE'S METHODIST HOSPITALMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOIS — $8,528,566 · HealthTRINITY MEDICAL CENTER — $7,173,276 · Health+8 more — $3,557,903 · HealthKEOKUK AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,250,521 · Other+6 more — $271,794 · OtherIWLC — $253,750 · Human ServicesVALORFIT — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $80,500 · InternationalTRAILHEAD INTERNATIONAL BUILDERS INC — $25,000 · InternationalDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $72,500 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCleveland Neighborhood Association - CNA — $5,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE IOWA — $7,500 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — $5,500 · Civil Rights
Health$182,426,263Other$4,522,315Human Services$283,750International$105,500Education$92,500Community Improvement$30,000Youth Development$20,000Civil Rights$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $132,632,216 over 5y, 21% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $16,571,917 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetST LUKE'S METHODIST HOSPITAL — $13,962,385 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOIS — $8,528,566 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTRINITY MEDICAL CENTER — $7,173,276 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMERITER HOSPITAL INC — $2,998,247 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE — $285,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetIWLC — $253,750 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetBLACK HAWK-GRUNDY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $184,156 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $80,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTRAILHEAD INTERNATIONAL BUILDERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION ON HEALTH CARE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVALORFIT — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetONE IOWA — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCollege of American Pathologists — $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Neighborhood Association - CNA — $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budget
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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Mid-Iowa Health Found…Athene Charitable Fou…United Way of Central…The Merchants Bonding…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Athene Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organization Iowa Health System 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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