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Monroe County Iowa Community Foundation

Community foundation which is building a pool of funds to provide for the needs of the residents of monroe county, iowa.

$202k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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.

Arts & Culture$655kRecreation & Sports$160kEducation$114kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$50kHousing & Shelter$30kReligion$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $39,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $202,352 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $162,852 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$19,500
ALBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
MONROE COUNTY FAIR$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST MARY'S WELLER CEMETERY: $11k → 10%IOWA STATE FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $422k → 10%IOWA STATE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $200k → 10%ALBIA DAY CARE: $50k → 10%MONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $45k → 10%ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $30k → 10%MONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $23k → 10%MONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $23k → 10%MONROE COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $20k → 10%ALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 10%ALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $16k → 10%ALBIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $16k → 10%ALBIA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 10%ALBIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $14k → 10%ALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $11k → 10%KING OPREA HOUSE INC: $11k → 10%ALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $11k → 10%ALBIA IOWA MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS: $10k → 10%1ST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $10k → 10%ALBIA ROTARY: $10k → 10%ALBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 10%MONROE COUNTY SHERIFF: $10k → 10%MONROE COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $10k → 10%1ST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $10k → 10%ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%MONROE COUNTY FAIR: $10k → 10%ALBIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 10%ALBIA HIGH SCHOOL CLAY TARGET PROGRAM: $10k → 10%ALBIA FIRE & RESCUE: $9k → 10%CITY OF ALBIA: $8k → 10%MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH: $8k → 10%KING OPERA HOUSE INC: $6k → 10%MONROE COUNTY FAIR: $6k → 10%KING OPREA HOUSE INC: $6k → 10%MONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 10%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$1.0M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-45%

Still filing today

67%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • AA
    ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $662k · revenue -121% · 81% of their budget
  • MC
    MONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k
  • AI
    ALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
    5× · 2017–2024 · $73k

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARYS WELLER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -45% · 77% of their budget
  • 1C
    1ST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • AI
    ALBIA IOWA MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $662,000 · OtherALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONMONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $95,092 · OtherMONROE COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUEALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $72,794 · OtherALBIA IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTMONROE COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $48,000 · OtherALBIA CHAMBER MAIN STREET: $40,000 · Other+10 more: $116,373 · Other+10 moreALBIA PRESCHOOL&DAYCARE CENTER INC: $60,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Education
Other$1,034,259Education$81,000

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 budgetALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $662,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetALBIA PRESCHOOL&DAYCARE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetALBIA CHAMBER MAIN STREET: $40,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE COUNTY FAIR INC: $15,800 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetST MARYS WELLER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $10,645 over 1y, 77% 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 ALBIA AREA IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALBIA PRESCHOOL&DAYCARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBIA CHAMBER MAIN STREET ↗
  • Who funds KING OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS WELLER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Community Fdn of Grea…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn

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 Monroe County Iowa Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monroe County Iowa Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Monroe County Iowa Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Monroe County Iowa Community 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 17 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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