· Public charity
Legacy of Grace School Tuition Org
To solicit contributions from the general public in order to provide scholarships to families to assist with tuition costs in grades K-12 of accredited, non-public schools located in the State of Iowa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $124,728 |
| OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $118,277 |
| NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $59,139 |
| OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $41,935 |
| PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $32,258 |
| SULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $29,032 |
| CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN | $18,573 |
| IACS | $6,607 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- OSOSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +276%
- NCNEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ASSN9× · 2017–2025 · $383k · revenue +117%
Funded once
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.
K-8 school
Christian education grade school
Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
Educational nbsp;christian nbsp;school
Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum
Quality education from a biblical perspective.
Education and instruction for grades k-6th
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
Pacific point christian schools partners with parents in educating and nurturing students minds and hearts for use in god's kingdom now and in the future.
The primary mission of the school is to provide its students with the academic training and spiritual nurture needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our lord jesus christ.
Covenant Christian School exist to partner with Christian parents in training their children: to provide quality Christ-centered academic education for children, and to actively promote service in the local church, community and nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oskaloosa Society for Christian Instruction and the most unlike its peers is Sully Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 OSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ASSN ↗
- Who funds OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WHITE ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds IOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
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.
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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 Legacy of Grace School Tuition Org 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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