· Public charity
Marshalltown Area United Way
To provide a mechanism to encourage charitable giving, to facilitate the distribution of gifts to member agencies that will enhance the quality of life for all marshall county residents.
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 $10k9 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION SERVICES INC | $127,149 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $77,993 |
| YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $66,000 |
| CIRSI | $57,200 |
| ACCESS | $43,648 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS HEART OF IOWA | $37,994 |
| IOWA RIVER HOSPICE | $33,666 |
| MID-IOWA WORKSHOPS | $29,896 |
| ARC OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $29,884 |
| HOUSE OF COMPASSION | $24,998 |
| CENTER ASSOCIATES | $24,987 |
| MID-IOWA TRIUMPH RECOVERY CENTER | $15,198 |
| AL EXITO | $12,264 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER | $10,497 |
| NE AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $9,997 |
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, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CACHILD ADOLESCENT AND PARENT SUPPORT IN9× · 2017–2025 · $904k · revenue +39%
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $486k · revenue +145%
- CICENTRAL IOWA RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MPMARSHALLTOWN PARKS AND RECREATION-CITY OF MARSHALLTOWNone grant, 2023 · $82k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARSHALL COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $60k
- EFEMERGENCY FOOD BOX INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +175%
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.
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
Immigration counseling and advocacy for minority senior citizens
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Mental health care to those in need
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…
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.
Prevent criminal activity and reduce populations in correctional facilities by treatment, education and counseling to persons with addictions, which often result in criminal behavior.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
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.
To provide guardianship and trustee services to vulnerable individuals in iowa. services also include representative payee.
To assist in the provision of a better life for iowa's low-income residents, through assistance to the community action organization located within the state.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Center Associates. 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 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 CHILD ADOLESCENT AND PARENT SUPPORT IN ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF IOWA BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds IOWA RIVER HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA TRIUMPH RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHA REINS ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD BOX INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Martha Ellen Tye Foundation · The Bill & Phyllis Lane Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way of Story County Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Ann C Keyser Charitable Trust · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Lsb Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
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 Marshalltown Area United Way 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.