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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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,527,565
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Mbi-Works Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$5.8M25%
FY20237$204k100%
FY20224$186k75%
FY20213$45k100%
FY20203$68kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$5.6MEducation$347kYouth Development$270kHuman Services$45kPhilanthropy$26kMembership Benefit$15kHousing & Shelter$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Mbi-Works Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Northern Iowa Foundation: $187,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetForest City Family YMCA: $106,050 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetForest Avenue Outreach: $52,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetIowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa: $43,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Sioux City: $38,325 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSoutheast Polk Education Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWaterloo Community Schools Foundation: $23,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFreedom for Youth Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetSkillsusa Inc: $16,335 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStarts Right Here: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWildwood Hills Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMasonry Institute of Iowa: $15,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetHome Builders Association: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFreedom for Youth Ministries: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mbi-Works Endowment

How much does Mbi-Works Endowment give?
Mbi-Works Endowment reported 8 grants totaling $5,759,990 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Mbi-Works Endowment fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (89%), Education (5%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Mbi-Works Endowment's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Iowa Construction Career Institute ($5.5M), University of Northern Iowa Foundation ($188k), Forest City Family YMCA ($106k).
Does Mbi-Works Endowment fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mbi-Works Endowment?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Lsb Foundation, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc.
Where is Mbi-Works Endowment based?
Mbi-Works Endowment is based in IA.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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