· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| QUIMBY COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $100,000 |
| JUNE E NYLEN CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY | $88,000 |
| WESTERN IOWA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| UNITY POINT - ST LUKE'S COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHWEST IOWA & NOPRTHEAST NEBRASKA | $75,000 |
| WOODBURY COUNTY IOWA | $75,000 |
| BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE | $75,000 |
| SIOUX CITY JUNIOR LEAGUE | $55,000 |
| GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Missouri River Historical Development Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Missouri River Historical Development Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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