· Public charity
Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization
Scholarship grant for students from families with income of less than 3 times the federal poverty guidelines.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of NORTHWEST IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS TUITION ORGANIZATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $872k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $358,543 |
| WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $261,774 |
| NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO | $251,555 |
| SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO | $247,565 |
| UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $201,156 |
| ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $168,185 |
| ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $120,243 |
| CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL | $75,754 |
| SHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $71,601 |
| NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $69,259 |
| SANBORN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $67,797 |
| INWOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $48,020 |
| HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $47,057 |
| IRETON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $27,023 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $22,540 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of your 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.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- SCSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +85%
- UCUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +117%
- WCWESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +42%
Funded once
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.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Quality education from a biblical perspective.
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
Christ Community School strives to provide a superior education in a warm, caring atmosphere that will equip students to serve and lead in Christ.
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
Encourage students to learn and apply god's truth while promoting academic excellence in a christian environment.
Our mission at temple christian school is to glorify god by providing for students a christ-centered education marked by excellence and grounded in biblical truth.
The mission of maryville christian school is to partner with christian parents by providing an academically excellent, biblically-based education,producing students with distinctive christian character.
Covenant Christian School exist to partner with Christian parents in training their children: to provide quality Christ-centered academic education for children, and to actively promote service in the local church, community and nation.
Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum
Education and instruction for grades k-6th
To glorify God by partnering with parents to equip students spiritually, intellectually, physically, and socially using Jesus Christ as our model.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Community Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Western Christian High School. 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 17 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 SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds IRETON SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY OF INWOOD ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
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: Premier Communications Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization 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.
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