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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.5M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$5.6MEducation$347kYouth Development$270kHuman Services$45kPhilanthropy$26kMembership Benefit$15kHousing & Shelter$15k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.5M
$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FREEDOM FOR YOUTH INC: $20k → 35%FOREST CITY YMCA JOHN V HANSON CAREER CENTER: $76k → 10%FOREST CITY YMCA: $30k → 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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$506k · 7 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -3% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$506k
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
-13%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $188k · revenue -37%
  • FC
    FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA
    2× · 2020–2022 · $106k · revenue -3%
  • DH
    DENVER HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $61k

Funded once

  • IJ
    IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +95%
  • NI
    NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -441%
  • SP
    SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -40% · 26% of their budget
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
The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…

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3
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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4
Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
5
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
6
Junior Achievement of Central Iowa Inc

To empower central iowa youth with an entrepreneurial mindset, financial capability and foundation for career success so that they can creat a bright and fulfilling future.

International
7
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
8
Technology Association of Iowa Education Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Iowa Ffa Foundation Inc

The iowa ffa foundation cultivates partnerships supporting agricultural education and also seeks and provides financial support to assist agricultural education organizations in accomplisihing their missions.

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10
State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education
11
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.

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12
Iowa West Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterloo Community Schools Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE: $5,527,565 · OtherIOWA CONSTRUCTION CAREER INSTITUTE+3 more: $91,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $187,500 · EducationCEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationNORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationWATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationForest Avenue Outreach: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $43,750 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $38,325 · Youth DevelopmentSTARTS RIGHT HERE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA: $106,050 · Human ServicesFREEDOM FOR YOUTH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,500 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySKILLSUSA INC: $16,335 · Employment
Other$5,618,815Education$320,500Youth Development$214,575Human Services$126,050Philanthropy$40,500Employment$16,335

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

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 budgetCEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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 budgetGREATER DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 1y, 8.3% 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
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.

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 Grea…Lsb FoundationPrairie Meadows Race …Variety - the Childre…Golf Charitable Found…Max and Helen Guernse…United Way of Central…Pella Rolscreen Found…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mbi-Works Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mbi-Works Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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 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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