· Public charity
Mbi-Works Endowment
The mission of mbi works endowment is to engage solely in supporting, advancing and creating interest in careers, education, and workforce development for the iowa commercial construction industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE | $5,527,565 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| DENVER HIGH SCHOOL | $26,250 |
| FOREST AVENUE OUTREACH | $22,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL IOWA | $18,750 |
| GIRLS INC OF SIOUX CITY | $16,425 |
| FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| SKILLSUSA IOWA | $7,001 |
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, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -3% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $188k · revenue -37%
- FCFOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA2× · 2020–2022 · $106k · revenue -3%
- DHDENVER HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $61k
Funded once
- IJIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +95%
- NINORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -441%
- SPSOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -40% · 26% of their budget
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.
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The mission of mbi works endowment is to engage solely in supporting, advancing and creating interest in careers, education, and workforce development for the iowa commercial construction industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterloo Community Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom for Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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 IOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Forest Avenue Outreach ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SKILLSUSA INC ↗
- Who funds STARTS RIGHT HERE ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds Masonry Institute of Iowa ↗
- Who funds HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Lsb Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mbi-Works Endowment 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.