· Private foundation
Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $453k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE VISION | $150,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| MERCY ONE | $50,000 |
| REDEEMER PRESCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NIACC | $50,000 |
| N IA TRANSITION CENTER | $33,333 |
| KINNEY PIONEER MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $30,000 |
| MASON CITY CHEER FUND | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH IOWA | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IA | $20,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $20,000 |
| YSS FRANCIS LAUER YOUTH SRVS | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- OVOne Vision4× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +26%
- ICIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $218k · revenue +0%
- CSCOMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $65k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $657k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $597k
- SAschedulle attachedone grant, 2017 · $586k
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 improve member newspapers
To provide a youth achievement show.
The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The iowa cooperative foundation is organized for charitable, scientific and education purposes. the foundation is organized, and will be operated by, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Grow Rockford Together Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 112 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 One Vision ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Way of North Central Iowa ↗
- Who funds TUNE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
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: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Farrer Endowment Foundation · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Winnebago Industries Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Lee Endowment Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa
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 Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc 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.
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