· Public charity
Missouri River Historical Development Inc
Improving the lives of citizens of woodbury county thru grants to government, civic and non-profit organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY | $1,000,000 |
| SIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTER | $560,000 |
| WOODBURY COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | $175,000 |
| SIOUXLAND HISTORICAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION | $115,000 |
| JUNE E NYLEN CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| QUIMBY COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $100,000 |
| BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY | $88,000 |
| WOODBURY COUNTY IOWA | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHWEST IOWA & NOPRTHEAST NEBRASKA | $75,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| WESTERN IOWA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| UNITY POINT - ST LUKE'S COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE | $75,000 |
| SIOUX CITY JUNIOR LEAGUE | $55,000 |
| CITY OF HORNICK | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
137 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $569k 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
- SCSIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTER6× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +42% · 94% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SIO SIOUX CITY3× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +179%
- BCBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MAMOVILLE AREA MEDICAL CLINIC INCone grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -66%
- PTPLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $220k · revenue -92% · 26% of their budget
- SHSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $150k
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.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
To preserve and celebrate the rich story of northwest iowa's dutch immigrant history and culture.
Cemetery care and maintenance
Sioux city public museum support
Provide support to the sioux center volunteer fire dept
Empowering individuals to seek care and providing a link to services that will help them thrive as they address the challenges of living with mental health and/or substance use disorder issues.
The mission of promise community health center is to provide accessible, holistic health care that adapts to the needs of the community to improve the wellbeing of all persons.
Golf course
The foundation provides support for community health. it helps eliminate barriers and improves the health of the community.
Receive and maintain a fund for charitable, religious, scientific, literary, health, welfare, recreational, cultural affairs or arts for the benefit of the community
To receive, administer and disburse funds for such charitable or educational purposes as will, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, promote the mental, moral, intellectual, artistic and physical improvement and well being of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Regional Cancer Center and the most unlike its peers is Sergeant Bluff Historical Museum. 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 28 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
154 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. 154 of the 285 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 SIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SIO SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IOWAS WEST COAST INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN IOWA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOVILLE AREA MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - SIOUX CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SIOUX CITY IOWA ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND HISTORICAL RAILROAD ASSOC ↗
- Who funds NORM WAITT SR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (2221) ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Anthon Community Center Association ↗
- Who funds PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WARMING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRITTENTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHON COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND ↗
- Who funds LAWTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS ↗
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: Siouxland Community Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation · United Way of Siouxland Inc · Food Bank of Siouxland Inc · Waitt Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Great West Casualty Company Foundation · Ronald B and Joan B Krage Foundation · Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp · Helios 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 Missouri River Historical Development Inc 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.
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.