· Private foundation
Nishnabotna Valley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO | $1,000 |
| METRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $1,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its 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 +50% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $6k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA4× · 2020–2024 · $3k
- DMDES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE3× · 2020–2022 · $2k
Funded once
Buena Vista Universityone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +13%
Harding University Incone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +16%- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTAone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
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.
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…
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)
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…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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…
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…
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…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 22 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
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.
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nishnabotna Valley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nishnabotna Valley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
How this is measured
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