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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $165,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $304,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $139,000 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.

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
GIRLS ON THE RUN EASTERN IOWA$25,000
CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER$25,000
EYES OPEN IOWA$25,000
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA$25,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY$25,000
YWCA OF CLINTON IOWA$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA$7,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $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 your 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%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%Waypoint: $10k → 9%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $25k → 10%Heartland Family Service: $10k → 12%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%Catherine McAuley Center: $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

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you 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

+21%
+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

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

  • 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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • SI
    SCKIC Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -16%
  • IC
    IOWA CITY SOBER LIVING
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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2
University Community Childcare Inc

Provide childhood daycare.

Human Services
3
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
4
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
5
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
6
Community Childcare of Manchester Iowa

Child care services

Education
7
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
8
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
9
Iowa Center for Children's Justice

ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.

Civil Rights
10
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal
11
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
12
County North Children's Center Inc

To offer quality child care at affordable prices.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and 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.

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 backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Regional Healthcare SystemsChristian Missionary & Inte…Youth Baseball and Softball…Trade Labor UnionsIowa Industry & Education A…
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 39 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number11%6%<5yr8%8%5–10yr11%17%10–20yr9%15%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr50%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value11%4%<5yr8%4%5–10yr11%19%10–20yr9%17%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr50%28%55yr+

The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
6%
954/16,097

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

59 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. 59 of the 62 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 SERVICESYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesSCKIC Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CITY DAY CARE 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…LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC — $10,000 · OtherDiscoveries Learning Center — $10,000 · OtherSprouts Early Learning Academy — $10,000 · OtherCARLISLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC — $10,000 · OtherPRK WILLIAMS INC DBA TO THE RESCUE — $10,000 · OtherCity of Roland — $10,000 · OtherShooting Star Childcare — $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 & …UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NOR…NOBLE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationNOBLE INITIATIVE …COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationCOUNCIL BLUFFS SC…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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFuture Net Incorporated — $35,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK — $27,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSCKIC Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLAKE CITY DAY CARE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGRIN & GROW LTD — $23,985 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUMNER DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE 4-C S COMMITTEE OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWilliamsburg Community Child Care Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAVERLY CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLITTLE CHARGER EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNOBLE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE KNIGHTS LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT COMMUNITY CHILDCARE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWAYLAND AREA CHILDCARE ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY UNITED CHILD CARE CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTANAGER PLACE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION — $9,435 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $9,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWESTERN HOME SERVICES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPENING DOORS — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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
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.

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

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 Women's 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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

    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 62 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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