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Matovina Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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
70% of Matovina Family Foundation’s FY2023 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. FY2023 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Matovina Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $63k. 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k29 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $10,000 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $6,240 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,100 |
| CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY | $3,000 |
| MERCYONE DES MOINES FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| IGA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDA | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MERCYONE DES MOINES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $25k) 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.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- VTVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +32%
- CFCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +81%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $29k
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue ×45
- EIEASTERSEALS IOWAone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
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…
The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
The greater cedar rapids community foundation (the community foundation) partners with donors, funders, and other community collaborators to achieve high-impact philanthropy, supports nonprofit organizations that address our community's…
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/a Greater Des Moines Community Fdn and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES WINE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation · Businessolver Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Matovina 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% 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.