· Public charity
Orchard Place
Our mission at ORCHARD PLACE is "developing strong futures" for the children and youth of iowa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $20,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $307,186 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $286,586 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $9,000 |
| BEAR CREEK KIDS CAMPUS | $5,800 |
| GROWING GREATNESS LEARNING CENTER | $5,800 |
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 (FY21–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
15 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TYTENDER YEARS DAYCARE2× · 2018–2022 · $22k
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $21k
- LLLILYPAD LEARNING CENTER & RESEARCH PARK2× · 2022–2023 · $21k
Funded once
- BHBRIGHT HORIZONS CHILDRENS CENTERS LLC DBA DISCOVERY PRESCHOOone grant, 2022 · $15k
- LCLIL' CUBSone grant, 2022 · $15k
- ZLZION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Provide christian based daycare and pre-school
Child care services and child preschool instruction
Preschool education and childcare
Child care and pre-school program open year round for children ages fifteen months to five years of age.
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
Giggles & grace early learning center, inc., with community, parents and teachers, is committed to providing a safe, nurturing christian environment emphasizing the total development of each child; spiritual, intellectual, emotional,…
Provide day care services to the children in and around sac city, iowa
Education and social developement center to provide preschool and after school care to children while promoting a child's emotional, educational and physical growth.
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Junction Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Mercy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 56 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 ADVENTURES PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE ↗
- Who funds KID-VILLE INC BAXTER EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PECK CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Village Ltd ↗
- Who funds AMES COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
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 Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Chrysalis Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Orchard Place 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.