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Nishnabotna Valley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$26k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$1,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$1,000
NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
METRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA: $500 → 12%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $500 → 13%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%CENTRAL COLLEGE: $500 → 8%BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 10%DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 10%IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 12%IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $750 → 12%IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $1k → 15%NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $500 → 20%METRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $1k → 13%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 10%IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 12%IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $1k → 15%NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $500 → 13%DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 10%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $500 → 15%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17k · 8 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$17k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+13%

Still filing today

13%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3k
  • DM
    DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2k

Funded once

  • AU
    AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +10%
  • Buena Vista University
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +13%
  • WS
    WAYNE STATE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

3
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
4
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa

We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…

Education
5
Drury University

Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning. (Continued on Schedule O)

Education
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Excelsior University

Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…

Education
10
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
11
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dordt University and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF IOWA — $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWADES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $2,000 · OtherDES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGENORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · OtherNORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN — $1,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLNIOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,250 · OtherIOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGEIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,000 · OtherMETRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,000 · Other+7 more — $3,500 · Other+7 moreCreighton University — $1,000 · EducationCreighton UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institut…DORDT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITYAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $500 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY A…Buena Vista University — $500 · EducationBuena Vista UniversityNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $500 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIV…CENTRAL COLLEGE — $500 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGE
Other$20,750Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCreighton University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuena Vista University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarding University Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Creighton University
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Buena Vista University
  • Who funds Harding University Inc
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE

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.

Marguerite V BrownWI14.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marguerite V Brown · Dean J King Family Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Nishnabotna Valley Foundation 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 26%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology26% of 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Nishnabotna Valley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nishnabotna Valley 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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