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Iowa Women's Foundation

The IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION is committed to improving the lives of iowa's women and girls.

$304k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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.

Human Services$428kYouth Development$211kEducation$155kHousing & Shelter$127kEmployment$100kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$28kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $165,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $304,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $139,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EYES OPEN IOWA$25,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY$25,000
YWCA OF CLINTON IOWA$25,000
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA$25,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN EASTERN IOWA$25,000
CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS$7,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Williamsburg Community Child Care Center: $10k → 7%Little Knights Learning Center: $10k → 8%THE KIDS SPOT: $25k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $25k → 9%Sunflower Child Development Center: $9k → 10%LITTLE CHARGER EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $35k → 10%Mason City Family YMCA: $7k → 12%Heartland Family Service: $10k → 12%WAYLAND AREA CHILDCARE ORGANIZATION: $10k → 12%Linking Families and Communities: $10k → 13%Crittenton Center: $8k → 13%Ringgold Co Child Care Center: $10k → 13%YWCA OF CLINTON IOWA: $25k → 13%Catherine McAuley Center: $10k → 9%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $25k → 10%Mt Pleasant Child Care Center: $10k → 12%YWCA Clinton: $10k → 13%Waverly Child Care and Preschool: $10k → 7%Catherine McAuley Center: $10k → 9%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $10k → 10%YMCA of Clinton Iowa: $10k → 13%Community United Child Care Centers Inc: $10k → 17%Waypoint: $10k → 9%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $10k → 10%Catherine McAuley Center: $10k → 9%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $10k → 10%4 Cs Community Coordinated Child Care: $15k → 15%Catherine McAuley Center: $6k → 9%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $10k → 10%Lutheran Social Services: $10k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 10%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $25k → 10%Waypoint: $10k → 9%LITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 17%EMBARC: $9k → 10%Oakridge Neighborhood: $25k → 10%Homes of Oakridge Human Services: $10k → 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$677k · 16 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
45

Total granted

$677k
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CM
    CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +267%
  • IJ
    IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +95%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEWBO CITY MARKETgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +81%
  • IC
    IOWA CITY SOBER LIVING
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • LC
    LAKE CITY DAY CARE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -27%
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
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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2
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
3
University Community Childcare Inc

Provide childhood daycare.

Human Services
4
Kids World Inc

Provide day care services to the children in and around sac city, iowa

Human Services
5
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
6
Ithaca Community Childcare Center Inc

Committed to providing families with the highest standard of child-inspired, professionally-nurtured care and opportunities for learning.

Human Services
7
East Moline Citizens for a Community Center

To provide childcare and preschool services as well as before and after school care for children ages 6 weeks - 12 years.

Human Services
8
Community Childcare of Manchester Iowa

Child care services

Education
9
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
10
Grand View Child Development Center Inc

Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities

Human Services
11
Love to Grow On

To provide learning opportunities, values, and encouragement to children & parents through our early childhood proagram. we serve infants through school-age children in a full day, year round program. our facility uses creative and…

Human Services
12
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services; the most unlike its peers is Leadher. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INCCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $61,485 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INCYWCA OF CLINTON IOWA: $44,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CLINTON IOWAHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICESLAKE CITY DAY CARE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesSCKIC Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES: $20,000 · Human Services+17 more: $164,495 · Human Services+17 moreSt Mark Youth Enrichment: $41,700 · OtherSt Mark Youth EnrichmentCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVEL…GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $15,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IO…EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC: $10,000 · OtherLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC: $10,000 · OtherDiscoveries Learning Center: $10,000 · OtherCity of Roland: $10,000 · OtherCARLISLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherSprouts Early Learning Academy: $10,000 · OtherShooting Star Childcare: $10,000 · OtherPRK WILLIAMS INC DBA TO THE RESCUE: $10,000 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $9,000 · OtherWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK: $27,500 · OtherWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE …MICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherNISAA AFRICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $36,470 · Other+5 moreHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN: $45,000 · EducationHAWKEYE COMMUNITY…Future Net Incorporated: $35,000 · EducationFuture Net Incorp…STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY …GRIN & GROW LTD: $23,985 · EducationGRIN & GROW LTDSUMNER DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER INC: $15,000 · EducationSUMNER DAYCARE & …COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationCOUNCIL BLUFFS SC…NOBLE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNOBLE INITIATIVE …UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NOR…LIL WILDCAT EDUCATION CENTER INC: $8,000 · EducationIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF EASTERN IOWA: $48,800 · Recreation & SportsIOWA CITY SOBER LIVING: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $10,000 · HealthTANAGER PLACE: $10,000 · HealthNEWBO CITY MARKET: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $7,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$509,980Other$269,670Education$186,985Youth Development$100,000Recreation & Sports$48,800Health$45,000Community Improvement$32,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $61,485 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF EASTERN IOWA: $48,800 over 4y, 14% of budgetHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA OF CLINTON IOWA: $44,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSt Mark Youth Enrichment: $41,700 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFuture Net Incorporated: $35,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK: $27,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLAKE CITY DAY CARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSCKIC Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGRIN & GROW LTD: $23,985 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE 4-C S COMMITTEE OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSUMNER DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYLAND AREA CHILDCARE ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY UNITED CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE CHARGER EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWAVERLY CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWilliamsburg Community Child Care Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT COMMUNITY CHILDCARE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOBLE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION: $9,435 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPENING DOORS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN HOME SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRITTENTON CENTER: $7,560 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Delta Dental of Iowa …Alliant Energy Founda…Community Fdn of Grea…GreenState Credit Uni…Max and Helen Guernse…Prairie Meadows Race …First Interstate Banc…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Variety - the Childre…United Way of Central…Community Foundation …Lsb Foundation
Delta Dental of Iowa FoundationIA43.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · GreenState Credit Union · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · United Way of Central Iowa · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Lsb 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 Women's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Women's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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
    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 62 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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