· Private foundation
MidAmerican Energy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 303 grants below total $3,187,032 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,789,564 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,602,532 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k256 grants · $280k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $532k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $333,909 |
| FRIENDS OF MLK INC | $250,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE CORRIDOR | $250,000 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $250,000 |
| GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NORWALK CENTRAL SPORTS CAMPUS | $100,000 |
| DMARC | $100,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| GROUT MUSEUM DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| TREES FOREVER RELEAF CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA | $100,000 |
| RIVER ACTION INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLANE | $98,370 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC | $85,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE QUAD CITIES | $82,425 |
| DES MOINES HERITAGE CENTER | $75,000 |
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 +49% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 213 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
Buena Vista University2× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +26%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +49%- IVIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC2× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINESone grant, 2020 · $2.5M
- ISIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +22% · 82% of their budget
- DMDES MOINES WATER WORKSone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
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…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
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…
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…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
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…
To improve member newspapers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
76 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. 76 of the 625 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNDERWOOD YOUTH TRAP CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MLK ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RIVER ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
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: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Lsb Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Quad Cities Community 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.
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