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Master Builders of Iowa at a glance

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Master Builders of Iowa

The primary objective of MASTER BUILDERS OF IOWA is to disseminate construction industry information for the benefit of its members and the construction industry, including but not limited to labor and safety information, news, construction project bid information and any other information that may affect the construction industry.

$41k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Public Benefit$125kEmployment$100kEducation$90kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$15k
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICAS GRADUATES INC$25,000
HARVESTING OPPORTUNITY$15,000
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CENTRAL IOWA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%REPUBLICAN PARTY OF IOWA: $25k → 5%HARVESTING OPPORTUNITY: $15k → 10%GOPAC EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 7%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCATION: $15k → 14%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CENTRAL IOWA: $1k → 5%HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF DES MOINES: $15k → 10%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCATION: $10k → 14%IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICAS GRADUATES INC: $25k → 10%IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICAS GRADUATES INC: $25k → 10%DES MOINES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $63k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 3 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +146% since the first grant, against -40% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$151k
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+146%
-40%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
Youth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RG
    Republican Governors Association
    3× · 2017–2020 · $75k
  • IJ
    IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +146%
  • IC
    IOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue -16%

Funded once

  • DM
    DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $63k
  • CS
    CONSTRUCTION SAFETY SPECIALISTS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -40%
  • RI
    REYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -100%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Iowa Skilled Trades

Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa

Education
2
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

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3
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

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4
Iowa City Area Development Group Inc

The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…

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5
Common Good Iowa

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.

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6
Iowa Business Council

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.

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7
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
8
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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9
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

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.

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10
Iowa First Fund

Iowa first fund was organized for the purpose of educating and informing iowa voters about limited government and expanding economic opportunity.

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11
Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation

To deliver programs and to conduct research for the benefit of students, educators, emerging leaders and employers that expand their knowledge and enhance their individual responsibility and leadership skills.

Youth Development
12
Iowa Policy Project

The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Construction Career Institute; the most unlike its peers is Home Builders Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Republican Governors Association: $75,000 · OtherRepublican Governors AssociationDES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $62,500 · OtherDES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLSCONSTRUCTION SAFETY SPECIALISTS INC: $50,000 · OtherCONSTRUCTION SAFETY SPECIALISTS INCIOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE: $26,292 · OtherIOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTEHOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherHOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATIONHARVESTING OPPORTUNITY: $15,000 · OtherHARVESTING OPPORTUNITYGOPAC EDUCATION FUND INC: $15,000 · OtherGOPAC EDUCATION FUND INCIOWA GROWTH PROJECT: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS FOR AM…REYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$269,792Youth Development$50,000Community Improvement$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSTRUCTION SAFETY SPECIALISTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE: $26,292 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARVESTING OPPORTUNITY: $15,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetGOPAC EDUCATION FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA GROWTH PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Master Builders of Iowa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Master Builders of Iowa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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