· Private foundation
Kyle J and Sharon Krause Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of Kyle J and Sharon Krause Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Fdn Of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 33 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Kyle J and Sharon Krause Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 46 organizations, $552k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2019
- Under $10k91 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES | $335,216 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES | $38,962 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $19,720 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES | $15,000 |
| MADISON COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $6,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES | $5,000 |
| AMERICA'S FAMILY COACHES | $5,000 |
| IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| MERCY ONE DES MOINES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
62 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2019, 31 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- NGNational Gallery of Art8× · 2017–2024 · $334k · revenue +29%
- HSHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $114k · revenue +258%
- BGBRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ISIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +76%
- SHSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -2%
- DMDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +57%
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.
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.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
To strengthen Iowa's families and communities by providing free legal help that protects housing, safety, and income-and empowers people to build stable, independent lives. With 10 offices serving all 99 Iowa counties, Iowa Legal Aid helps…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lead Dsm and the most unlike its peers is Okoboji Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
126 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. 126 of the 212 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds HOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds IOWA GREAT LAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds DALLA TERRA RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRICKER PRICE BLOCK RESTORATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
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 · Ita Group Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner
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 Kyle J and Sharon Krause Family 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.
- Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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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