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MidAmerican Energy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.8M
Granted FY2022
303
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$334k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.1MRecreation & Sports$1.6MYouth Development$802kArts & Culture$776kEnvironment$656kEducation$404kCivil Rights$253kPublic Safety & Disaster$212kOther$0
02FY2022 · 303 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 303 grants below total $3,187,032, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,790,124 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,603,092 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k256 grants · $280k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $532k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA$333,909
BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE CORRIDOR$250,000
FRIENDS OF MLK INC$250,000
DES MOINES ART CENTER$250,000
GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION$200,000
DMARC$100,000
TREES FOREVER RELEAF CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA$100,000
NORWALK CENTRAL SPORTS CAMPUS$100,000
GROUT MUSEUM DISTRICT$100,000
RIVER ACTION INC$100,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM$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
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 97 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
313

Total granted

$1.3M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+14%

Still filing today

4%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Buena Vista University
    2× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +49%
  • IV
    IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES
    one grant, 2020 · $2.5M
  • IS
    IOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +22% · 82% of their budget
  • DM
    DES MOINES WATER WORKS
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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.

03Its 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
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
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
4
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement
5
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
6
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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7
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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9
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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10
West Central Community Action

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.

Human Services
11
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
12
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 625 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
47/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $2,550,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINESIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $1,025,006 · OtherIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CARROLL: $368,224 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $333,909 · Other+166 more: $3,828,690 · Other+166 moreEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES HERITAGE CENTER: $75,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $23,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MLK: $250,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBREMER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $7,000 · Community ImprovementUNDERWOOD YOUTH TRAP CLUB: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF DOON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsMARCUS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · AnimalsCHEROKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT: $22,651 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $17,515 · PhilanthropyCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY: $16,331 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $6,312 · PhilanthropyBEYOND THE FAIRWAYS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $10,650 · Youth DevelopmentMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $8,600 · Youth Development
Other$8,105,829Arts & Culture$448,500Community Improvement$367,000Recreation & Sports$305,000Animals$200,000Philanthropy$137,809Youth Development$119,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $1,025,006 over 1y, 82% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $333,909 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRIVER ACTION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $85,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDES MOINES HERITAGE CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHEROKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBERGMAN ACADEMY: $27,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA: $25,025 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREMER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DOON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCUS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT: $22,651 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $17,515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY: $16,331 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SIOUX FALLS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuena Vista University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Visions Homeless Services: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $11,963 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $10,650 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $10,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $9,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $8,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRICKER PRICE BLOCK RESTORATION CORPORATION: $7,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $6,312 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds IOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MLK ↗
  • Who funds UNDERWOOD YOUTH TRAP CLUB ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

GreenState Credit Uni…Alliant Energy Founda…Community Fdn of Grea…Lsb FoundationEMC Insurance Foundat…The Merchants Bonding…The West Bancorporati…William C Knapp Chari…Kyle J & Sharon Kraus…Pella Rolscreen Found…Meredith Corporation …Quad Cities Community…
GreenState Credit UnionIA47.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to MidAmerican Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to MidAmerican Energy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 625 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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