· Private foundation
Iowa Realty Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $100,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $109,706 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,106 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Principal Charity Classic | $52,850 |
| United Way of Central Iowa | $15,000 |
| UnityPoint Health Foundation | $6,250 |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $6,250 |
| Cover My 6 Foundation | $5,000 |
| Gigi's Playhouse | $5,000 |
| Sheepgate | $4,000 |
| Dorothy's House | $4,000 |
| University of Northern Iowa Foundation | $2,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $21k) 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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PCPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +8%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +7%
- BABALANCE AUTISM2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +42%
- NCNEW CHAPTERSone grant, 2020 · $12k
- TPTANAGER PLACEone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +21%
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.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchard Place and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Indianola Public Library Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 66 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALANCE AUTISM ↗
- Who funds SCKIC Inc ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PERRY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANDO CANCER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds BIDWELL RIVERSIDE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWELS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPORT ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PINK TRACTOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · United Way of Central Iowa · EMC Insurance Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · R & R Realty Group 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 Realty 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.