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Iowa Hospital Association

The IOWA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes.

$433k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$162k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$4.6MPublic Benefit$200kFood & Nutrition$140kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kHuman Services$42k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $362k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION$162,040
IOWA FIRST FUND$100,000
HARVESTING OPPORTUNITIES$100,000
EMPOWER IOWA FUND$30,000
DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,600
SHAEF$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
TENNESSEE HOSPITAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $30k → 5%PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER: $22k → 8%ST ANTHONY REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $27k → 9%BOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL: $18k → 9%UNITYPOINT HEALTH - GRINNELL: $21k → 9%MERCY MEDICAL CENTER-CEDAR RAPIDS: $78k → 9%SPENCER HOSPITAL: $28k → 9%WINNESHIEK MEDICAL CENTER: $22k → 10%BUENA VISTA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 10%IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 10%MAHASKA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $24k → 10%MERCYONE DUBUQUE MEDICAL CENTER: $71k → 11%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-MARSHALLTOWN: $35k → 11%MERCYONE NORTH IOWA MEDICAL CENTER: $78k → 12%METHODIST JENNIE EDMUNDSON: $42k → 12%GENESIS MEDICAL CENTER-DAVENPORT: $82k → 12%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-TRINITY MUSCATINE: $21k → 12%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-TRINITY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $44k → 13%MERCYONE SIOUXLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $78k → 13%JEFFERSON COUNTY HEALTH CENTER: $16k → 14%CASS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $18k → 14%GREAT RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM: $71k → 15%MERCY IOWA CITY: $71k → 15%OTTUMWA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER: $32k → 16%MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER: $71k → 17%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-ALLEN HOSPITAL: $78k → 17%WAVERLY HEALTH CENTER: $22k → 7%REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 9%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL: $78k → 9%IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $162k → 10%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-FINLEY HOSPITAL: $48k → 11%IOWA SPECIALTY HOSPITAL-CLARION: $22k → 11%CHI HEALTH MERCY COUNCIL BLUFFS: $34k → 12%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-TRINITY BETTENDORF: $35k → 12%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-ST LUKE'S SIOUX CITY: $71k → 13%MERCYONE CLINTON MEDICAL CENTER: $38k → 13%FORT MADISON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $25k → 14%GREATER REGIONAL HEALTH: $19k → 15%UNITYPOINT HEALTH-IOWA METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER: $69k → 10%MERCYONE WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTER: $78k → 17%ORANGE CITY AREA HEALTH SYSTEM: $16k → 8%HARVESTING OPPORTUNITIES: $100k → 10%HARVESTING OPPORTUNITY: $40k → 10%IOWA FIRST FUND: $100k → 10%IOWA FIRST FUND: $25k → 10%MERCYONE DES MOINES MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 10%BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER: $56k → 10%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $35k → 14%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 3 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
116

Total granted

$2.4M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IH
    IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue -78% · 83% of their budget
  • HO
    HARVESTING OPPORTUNITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue +57%
  • IF
    IOWA FIRST FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH SERVICES - IOWA CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $156k · revenue +13%
  • GM
    GENESIS MEDICAL CENTER-DAVENPORT
    one grant, 2020 · $82k
  • MD
    MERCYONE DES MOINES MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.

Health
2
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
3
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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4
Mercy Medical Center - Centerville

We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…

Health
5
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
6
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
7
Mercy Medical Center - Newton

We, mercy medical center - newton and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy medical center - newton is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Meriter Hospital Inc

Meriter hospital, inc. is dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
10
Genesis Health System

We, genesis health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
11
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

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

Health
12
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp

We, catholic health initiatives - iowa, corp. and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. catholic health initiatives - iowa, corp. is a member…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry County Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reynolds-Gregg Inaugural Committee. 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

27 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. 27 of the 124 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,162,040 · HealthIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONMERCY HEALTH SERVICES - IOWA CORP: $155,870 · HealthMERCY HEALTH SERVICES - IOWA CORP+16 more: $401,383 · Health+16 moreHARVESTING OPPORTUNITY: $140,000 · OtherHARVESTING OPPORTUNITYIOWA FIRST FUND: $125,000 · OtherIOWA FIRST FUNDGENESIS MEDICAL CENTER-DAVENPORT: $81,998 · OtherMERCYONE DES MOINES MEDICAL CENTER: $80,440 · OtherUNITYPOINT HEALTH-ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL: $78,102 · OtherMERCY MEDICAL CENTER-CEDAR RAPIDS: $78,102 · OtherUNITYPOINT HEALTH-ALLEN HOSPITAL: $78,102 · Other+95 more: $1,559,066 · Other+95 moreEMPOWER IOWA FUND: $30,000 · Community ImprovementREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementKNOXVILLE HOSPITAL AND CLINICS: $12,561 · PhilanthropyDALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,600 · Philanthropy
Health$2,719,293Other$2,220,810Community Improvement$40,000Philanthropy$23,161

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 budgetIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,162,040 over 2y, 83% of budgetMERCY HEALTH SERVICES - IOWA CORP: $155,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTING OPPORTUNITY: $140,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetIOWA FIRST FUND: $125,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOVENANT MEDICAL CENTER INC: $78,103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $70,759 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE FINLEY HOSPITAL: $48,007 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITYPOINT HEALTH-MARSHALLTOWN: $35,285 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $33,884 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER IOWA FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetPELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER: $22,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $15,772 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSioux Center Health: $14,588 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStewart Memorial Community Hospital: $14,087 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOXVILLE HOSPITAL AND CLINICS: $12,561 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBURGESS HEALTH CENTER: $12,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,600 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetVirginia Gay Hospital Inc: $10,288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIOUX VALLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCATION: $9,808 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNING REGIONAL HEALTHCARE CENTER: $6,794 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSCEOLA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $5,604 over 1y, 0.0% 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 IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES - IOWA CORP ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTING OPPORTUNITY ↗
  • Who funds IOWA FIRST FUND ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FINLEY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITYPOINT HEALTH-MARSHALLTOWN ↗
  • Who funds ALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER IOWA FUND ↗
  • Who funds FORT MADISON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds PELLA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER ↗

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.

American Heart Associ…The Leona M and Harry…Community Fdn of Grea…Grinnell Regional Med…Iowa Hospital Educati…Elderbridge Agency on…Iowa Health Care Asso…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Heart Association IncTX37.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Grinnell Regional Medical Center · Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation · Elderbridge Agency on Aging · Iowa Health Care Association Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hospital Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Hospital Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 124 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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