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Midwestone Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$241k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$378kHuman Services$273kArts & Culture$190kRecreation & Sports$142kHealth$108kYouth Development$103kPublic Benefit$96kFood & Nutrition$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $226k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY$7,500
INSPIRING COMMUNITY INC$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,250
CITY OF LANCASTER$5,000
BIKE LIBRARY$5,000
BOBCAT LEGACY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
ST LUKE'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
GRUNDY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
DYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC$5,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC$5,000
FRIENDS OF MAHASKA COUNTY CONSERVATION$5,000
NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$5,000
OSCEOLA MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
OUR NEIGHBORS' PLACE$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 6%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 6%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 6%CAER FOOD SHELF: $4k → 6%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%CAER FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%COMMUNITY THREAD: $5k → 6%CAER FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL: $5k → 7%CAER FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS: $3k → 14%CAER FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL: $5k → 7%JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS: $3k → 14%JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS: $3k → 14%JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS: $3k → 14%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL: $3k → 7%PRISM: $5k → 11%JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS: $3k → 14%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%PRISM: $5k → 11%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%PRISM: $5k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y: $15k → 11%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y: $15k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $12k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $12k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $12k → 11%ENDEAVORS ADULT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2k → 9%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $12k → 11%STONEHILL FRANCISCAN SERVICES: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $5k → 15%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Midwestone Bank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Midwestone Bank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 109 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

109 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
49

Total granted

$1.4M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

63%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SF
    Stonehill Franciscan Services
    5× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +37%
  • DC
    Dubuque County Historical Society
    5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • PR
    PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • WF
    WAUKEE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -92%
  • MY
    MAHASKA YMCA AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOP
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • MY
    MAHASKA YMCA AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $6k

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
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
2
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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3
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
4
Community Foundation for Western Iowa

The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.

Philanthropy
5
Pella Regional Health Center

The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.

Health
6
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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7
Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County

The organization is organized exclusively for the purpose of expanding and strengthening efforts to address the housing, shelter and service needs of lowincome residents of johnson county, iowa.

Housing & Shelter
8
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.

—
9
Waterloo Community Foundation

Provide a lean, straightforward, and transparent conduit vehicle to those who wish to contribute resources for the betterment of the greater waterloo, iowa community and its citizens.

Philanthropy
10
Community Action of Eastern Iowa

Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.

Community Improvement
11
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is English Valleys Recreation Co. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Performing ArtsCommunity Education Foundat…Senior Residential CareSocial Impact AcceleratorsChristian Evangelical Minis…Family Philanthropic Founda…Health System Support Organ…Early Childhood Care CentersPublic Charter SchoolsImmigrant and Indigenous Co…Firefighter Benefit Associa…Food Assistance & Emergency…Trade Labor Unions
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%3%<5yr10%12%5–10yr15%18%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr34%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%2%<5yr10%14%5–10yr15%13%10–20yr13%20%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr34%16%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/114
the rest of the field
10%
2,702/28,034

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.

05the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 184 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/104
Grantees still filing
67/104
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $42,000 · OtherUI CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT — $36,250 · Other+128 more — $1,004,638 · Other+128 moreStonehill Franciscan Services — $60,000 · Human ServicesStonehill Fr…DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y — $30,000 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE COMM…PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $25,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPO…JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON CO…COMMUNITY AID OF ELK RIVER — $14,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AI…ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesANOKA COUNTY…COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF — $7,500 · Human Services+2 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDUBUQUE M…Dubuque County Historical Society — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDubuque C…RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE…MAHASKA FUTURE VIEW — $20,001 · Arts & CultureMAHASKA F…FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRANCONIA…CARNEGIE MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE …NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RISE SCHOOL OF DENVER — $25,000 · EducationTHE RISE …SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $20,000 · EducationSUMMIT AC…CENTRAL COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationCENTRAL C…BOBCAT LEGACY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationBOBCAT LE…WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationWILLIAM P…CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationCEDAR FAL…SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST…THE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · EducationKIPP Minnesota — $5,000 · EducationFOREST LAKE BLUE LINE CLUB NICOLE MELBERG — $5,000 · EducationLAKES INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationPEOSTA ELEMENTARY PARENTS — $5,000 · EducationCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $6,500 · EducationINSPIRING COMMUNTY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $17,500 · PhilanthropyMARION PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPURPLE & GRAY FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · PhilanthropySPIRIT OF PELLA — $7,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $6,667 · PhilanthropyPELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,750 · PhilanthropyGREATER BURLINGTON AREA SPORTS FACILITIES — $20,000 · Community ImprovementPELLA PRESERVATION TRUST — $16,000 · Community ImprovementDYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEWBO CITY MARKET — $5,000 · Community ImprovementKEOKUK COUNTY EXPOSITION INC — $3,500 · Community ImprovementTHE FAIRFIELD PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSTMA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsENGLISH VALLEYS RECREATION CO — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBENTON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS ARENA ASS — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,082,888Human Services$198,500Arts & Culture$148,501Education$145,500Philanthropy$78,417Community Improvement$64,500Recreation & Sports$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStonehill Franciscan Services — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE CO — $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHUDSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RISE SCHOOL OF DENVER — $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINSPIRING COMMUNTY INC — $25,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEDEN PRAIRIE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMAHASKA FUTURE VIEW — $20,001 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLEE COUNTY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON AREA SPORTS FACILITIES — $20,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HOPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBUR OAK LAND TRUST — $19,170 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPELLA PRESERVATION TRUST — $16,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FAIRFIELD PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetMILL POND LEARNING FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOBCAT LEGACY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $15,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSTMA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPHEN ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY AID OF ELK RIVER — $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING — $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLADD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES HEALING NEST — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTri-State Christian School Association — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARION PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGRUNDY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetONE CITY UNITED — $10,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $10,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH STAR — $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARNEGIE MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% 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 Stonehill Franciscan Services ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
  • Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RISE SCHOOL OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRING COMMUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds EDEN PRAIRIE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MAHASKA FUTURE VIEW ↗
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON AREA SPORTS FACILITIES ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CITY HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUR OAK LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds THE FAIRFIELD PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILL POND LEARNING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOBCAT LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds RURAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds STMA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

GreenState Credit Uni…Alliant Energy Founda…Community Foundation …Fred C and Katherine …Greater Cedar Rapids …Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…St Croix Valley Found…Hills Bank Donor Advi…Community Fdn of Grea…Andersen Corporate Fo…Dubuque Racing Associ…Edina Realty Foundati…
GreenState Credit UnionIA42.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Edina Realty 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 Midwestone Bank 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lee County Housing Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
36report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Midwestone Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Midwestone Bank 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 184 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.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home