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Mid-Iowa Health Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$452k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$1.5MPhilanthropy$583kYouth Development$525kHuman Services$515kEducation$416kCivil Rights$332kEmployment$316kArts & Culture$239kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $218k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL$100,000
LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC$60,000
IOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION$58,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$30,000
IOWA MIGRANT MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE$26,000
UNITYPOINT HEALTH- DES MOINES$20,000
DES MOINES AREA REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (DART)$20,000
MY CITY MY HEALTH$20,000
KNOCK AND DROP IOWA$20,000
IOWA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION$20,000
FAMILY PLANNING COUNCIL OF IOWA$20,000
COMMUNITY YOUTH CONCEPTS$20,000
CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA$20,000
MY CITY MY HEALTH$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 8%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $100k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL (DMARC): $1k → 10%PROJECT IOWA: $25k → 10%IOWA CONGOLESE ORGANIZATION AND CENTER FOR HEALING: $1k → 10%Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $2k → 10%Urban Dreams: $12k → 10%Children and Families of Iowa: $2k → 10%HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES: $1k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $1k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $500 → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $500 → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $500 → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $500 → 10%AMOS Institute of Public Life: $35k → 10%AMOS Institute of Public Life: $20k → 10%Iowa Homeless Youth Centers: $50k → 10%Young Women's Resource Center: $30k → 10%Young Women's Resource Center: $25k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $15k → 10%Des Moines Area Religious Council: $10k → 10%Homes of Oakridge Human Services: $8k → 10%Iowa Homeless Youth Centers: $5k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $5k → 10%Homes of Oakridge Human Services: $2k → 10%Young Women's Resource Center: $2k → 10%Young Women's Resource Center: $2k → 10%Iowa Homeless Youth Centers: $700 → 10%Dorothy's House: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 63 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
54

Total granted

$4.2M
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+20%

Still filing today

70%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • IP
    IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue +32%
  • IP
    IOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $199k · revenue +618%
  • LL
    LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • ID
    Iowa Department of Human Services
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • ID
    Iowa Department of Human Rights
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • IC
    IOWA CAREGIVERS
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal
4
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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5
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
6
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

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7
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

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8
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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9
Informed Choice of Iowa Corporation

Turn fear into confidence by meeting the real needs of women and men and providing strength for life's tough choices.

Health
10
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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11
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
12
Iowa Association of Community

Relentlessly advocating for providers to build healthy communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Council of Foundations and the most unlike its peers is De Beaumont Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number7%1%<5yr4%11%5–10yr6%20%10–20yr5%23%20–35yr7%29%35–55yr71%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value7%1%<5yr4%8%5–10yr6%22%10–20yr5%24%20–35yr7%30%35–55yr71%15%55yr+

The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
4%
369/9,220

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 129 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
56/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HARKIN INSTITUTE DRAKE UNIVERSITY — $207,618 · OtherTHE HARKIN INSTITUTE DRAKE UNIVERSITYIOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $198,834 · OtherIOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC — $173,666 · OtherLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INCBlank Children's Hospital — $173,333 · OtherBlank Children's HospitalUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $156,608 · OtherLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC (AL EXITO) — $140,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES IN IOWA INC — $130,000 · OtherDes Moines University — $111,893 · Other+74 more — $1,749,483 · Other+74 moreIOWA ACES 360 — $148,833 · HealthIOWA ACES 360HEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC — $95,834 · HealthHEALTHY BIRTH …PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC — $69,833 · HealthPRIMARY HEALTH…MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $60,850 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATI…IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE — $60,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTHIES…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $54,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…ORCHARD PLACE — $43,000 · HealthORCHARD PLACEELLIPSIS INC — $35,500 · HealthELLIPSIS INC+10 more — $90,850 · Health+10 moreCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $185,568 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…DE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC — $155,000 · PhilanthropyDE BEAUMO…TIDES FOUNDATION — $29,167 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC — $20,333 · PhilanthropyTHE DIRECTORS COUNCIL — $20,200 · Philanthropy+1 more — $9,225 · PhilanthropyDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $131,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $58,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $55,700 · Human ServicesAMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE — $55,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT IOWA — $25,000 · Human ServicesURBAN DREAMS — $15,000 · Human Services+5 more — $18,000 · Human ServicesIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC — $230,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $179,667 · EducationFuture Net Incorporated — $54,960 · Education+5 more — $10,759 · EducationCOMMUNITY YOUTH CONCEPTS — $230,500 · Youth Development
Other$3,041,935Health$658,700Philanthropy$419,493Human Services$358,200Arts & Culture$255,000Education$245,386Youth Development$230,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CONCEPTS — $230,500 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC — $230,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $198,834 over 6y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $185,568 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $179,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC — $173,666 over 6y, 19% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $156,608 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC — $155,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA ACES 360 — $148,833 over 5y, 28% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $131,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES IN IOWA INC — $130,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBY DEGREES FOUNDATION — $100,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC — $95,834 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetPLEASE PASS THE LOVE — $82,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY POLICY CENTER — $79,473 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND — $77,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC — $69,833 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF IOWA — $68,333 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $60,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE — $60,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetIowa Primary Care Association Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $58,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $55,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE — $55,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetFuture Net Incorporated — $54,960 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $54,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA MIGRANT MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE — $46,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetORCHARD PLACE — $43,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATIONS INC — $41,167 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA CAREGIVERS — $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetELLIPSIS INC — $35,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS IOWA — $33,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPROTEUS INC — $30,333 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $29,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT IOWA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKNOCK AND DROP IOWA — $24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS-IOWA INC — $20,800 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIOWA COALITION FOR COLLECTIVE CHANGE — $20,334 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEat Greater Des Moines — $20,334 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSTREET COLLECTIVE — $20,333 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC — $20,333 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DIRECTORS COUNCIL — $20,200 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING COUNCIL OF IOWA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE IOWA — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN DREAMS — $15,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budget
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 YOUTH CONCEPTS ↗
  • Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds DE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA ACES 360 ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds BY DEGREES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLEASE PASS THE LOVE ↗
  • Who funds AMOS A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
  • Who funds IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Primary Care Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Future Net Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA MIGRANT MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE ↗

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.

United Way of Central…Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …Delta Dental of Iowa …Variety - the Childre…The Hws Charitable Fo…The West Bancorporati…EMC Insurance Foundat…The Merchants Bonding…Chrysalis FoundationTelligen Community In…Ita Group Foundation
United Way of Central IowaIA93.7× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Iowa · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation · Telligen Community Initiative · Ita Group Foundation

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 Mid-Iowa Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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