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Lsb Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k129 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CEDAR FALLS HOUSING TRUST FUND | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL RIVERS AEA FOUNDATION | $7,298 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $7,164 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $5,657 |
| CHIC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DBA HOUSE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
| HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE IOWA CENTER | $5,000 |
| GREENE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $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 (FY17–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
225 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 153 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- CBCEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +21%
- ICIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +3%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- GCGROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6k · 69% of their budget
- DADIAMONDS AND FIELDSone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -83%
- APAhrens Park Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +119%
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 organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
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.
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
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.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Iowa sister states is dedicated to connecting iowans with the world community. our mission is to develop and implement international partnerships and programs that promote the cultural, economic, and other interests of iowa and its friends…
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Center for Economic Success and the most unlike its peers is Jay N Darling Legacy Center. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
193 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. 193 of the 383 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 CEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES WATER WORKS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Otto Schoitz Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Cedar Valley United Way · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Van G Miller Family Charitable 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 Lsb 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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