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Modern Woodmen of America

To improve the quality of life for our members

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$999kYouth Development$602kHealth$509kArts & Culture$355kCommunity Improvement$293kPublic Safety & Disaster$252kEducation$226kHousing & Shelter$160kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $662,833, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,465,779 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $802,946 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $332k
$18,280
Median grant
2
States reached
$18.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION$102,110
AMERICAN RED CROSS$74,840
ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY$55,000
NIABI ZOO FOUNDATION$50,000
VERA FRENCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$50,000
BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$43,333
QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$35,000
FRIENDSHIP MANOR$34,000
CHRISTIAN FRIENDLINESS ASSOCIATION - YOUTHHOPE$31,665
RIVER BEND FOOD BANK$28,155
BALLET QUAD CITIES$20,000
CENTER FOR ACTIVE SENIORS INC$18,280
GILDA'S CLUB OF QUAD CITIES$17,165
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY QC$14,665
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$12,895
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $583k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $34k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $21k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $41k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $34k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $34k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $10k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $10k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $10k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $9k → 15%YMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $15k → 12%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 12%PROJECT NOW INC: $7k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $7k → 15%THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $5k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $43k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $43k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $18k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 15%HAND IN HAND: $6k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $6k → 12%HAND-IN-HAND: $5k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
CT
CO
NE
VA
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 38 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
9

Total granted

$3.3M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+65%

Still filing today

95%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • YO
    YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES
    6× · 2018–2023 · $256k · revenue +267%
  • TR
    Two Rivers YMCA Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +65%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PC
    PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • WI
    Western Illinois University Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +17%
  • NC
    NAMI COLORADO
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
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.

04Its 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
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…

Community Improvement
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
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.

—
4
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
5
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.

—
6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—
7
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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8
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
9
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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10
Council Apartments Inc

Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…

Housing & Shelter
11
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
12
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad Cities Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New Ground Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 52 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
35/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $256,000 · OtherYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIESTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $236,500 · OtherTwo Rivers YMCA IncYOUTHHOPE: $225,895 · OtherYOUTHHOPEQUAD CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $165,000 · OtherQUAD CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCELIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $121,790 · OtherLIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $117,765 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC: $95,228 · OtherTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $85,910 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC: $68,170 · Other+18 more: $561,638 · Other+18 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $227,442 · Human ServicesAmerican National …FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP MANOR I…BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $136,704 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHILDR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $30,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HAND: $21,575 · Human Services+2 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $92,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY …BALLET QUAD CITIES: $75,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET QUA…PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUS…QUAD CITY ARTS INC: $53,500 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY …THE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MIDWES…NEW GROUND THEATRE: $20,500 · Arts & CultureNEW GROUND…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS: $124,355 · HealthCANCER SU…TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $102,110 · HealthTRINITY H…Vera French Community Mental Health Center Inc: $50,000 · HealthVera Fren…EMPOWERING ABILITIES: $20,370 · HealthEMPOWERIN…+2 more: $20,000 · Health+2 moreST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $155,500 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationWestern Illinois University Foundation: $10,500 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $108,666 · InternationalRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $88,695 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,933,896Human Services$582,721Arts & Culture$346,000Health$316,835Education$231,000International$108,666Food & Nutrition$88,695

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $256,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $236,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $227,442 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHHOPE: $225,895 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $155,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $155,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $136,704 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS: $124,355 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetLIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $121,790 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $108,666 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $102,110 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC: $95,228 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $92,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $88,695 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $85,910 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBALLET QUAD CITIES: $75,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC: $68,170 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCenter for Active Seniors Inc: $63,990 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $54,545 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetQUAD CITY ARTS INC: $53,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $50,460 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetQUAD CITIES REGIONAL VISION: $50,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetNIABI ZOO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetVera French Community Mental Health Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF ROCK ISLAND: $42,925 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $25,097 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $21,575 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES: $20,370 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLL Global Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC: $13,625 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI COLORADO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE QUAD CITIES: $9,996 over 1y, 31% of budgetPROJECT NOW INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Scott County Regional…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Quad Cities Community…Moline FoundationUnited Way Quad CitiesHubbell-Waterman FndnDoris & Victor Day Fo…Rauch Family Foundati…The Rock Island Commu…Grant & Virginia Bris…Roy J Carver Charitab…Mary Iva Gittins Knou…
Scott County Regional AuthorityIA63.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Moline Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Modern Woodmen of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Modern Woodmen of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Modern Woodmen of America?

Find your warmest path to Modern Woodmen of America 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 52 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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