· Public charity
Muscatine Charities Inc
To contribute to local charities to enhance the quality of life for everyone in the muscatine community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $93,426 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $115,106 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,680 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE | $30,926 |
| MUSCATINE CTR FOR SOCIAL ACTION | $19,650 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA | $7,850 |
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 (FY17–20, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION4× · 2017–2020 · $94k · revenue +10%
- UHUNITY HEALTHCARE2× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +47%
- YSYOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $19k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SRSENIOR RESOURCES INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -27%
- PCPEARL CITY OUTREACHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +56%
- TDTHE DIVERSITY SERVICE CENTER OF IOWAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +44%
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 apperance of the city of muscatine
Provide housing opportunities for persons with disabilities
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
To contribute to local charities to enhance the quality of life for everyone in the muscatine community.
To deter and reduce crime, especially juvenile delinquency and gang activity, through organized neighborhoods by improving community living conditions and strengthening families.
Providing scholarships to students attending muscatine community college.
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…
Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Muscatine Iowa and the most unlike its peers is The Jared and Carol Hills Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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
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 UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER MUSCATINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL CITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE DIVERSITY SERVICE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE JARED AND CAROL HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · United Way of Muscatine Iowa · HNI Charitable Foundation · Jensen Private Foundation Inc · KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · New Hope Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Muscatine Charities 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.