· Public charity
Polk County Housing Trust Fund
To create/support affordable housing and related services in polk county.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $3,791,326 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,239,171 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $447,845 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVES INC | $1,019,770 |
| CUTLER DEVELOPMENT | $684,036 |
| ANAWIM HOUSING | $475,371 |
| POLK COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS | $457,817 |
| GDM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $244,169 |
| HOME INC | $157,345 |
| MID-IOWA PLANNING ALLIANCE (MIPA) | $122,085 |
| CITY OF DES MOINES | $122,085 |
| PRIMARY HEALTH CARE | $121,303 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER DSM | $76,303 |
| IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTERS | $70,000 |
| OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES | $65,000 |
| PARAMOUNT DEVELOPMENT INC | $61,042 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $30,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $25,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Our mission is to create solutions to homelessness in polk county by collaborating with partners and maximizing resources for a healthy, housed community.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Develop, preserve and operate affordable housing for low and moderate- income households and provde services to residents to maintain housing stability, improve quality of life and break the cycle of poverty.
Provide holistic and innovative solutions that strengthen neighborhoods. we do this through strategic investments in real estate and partnerships to improve quality of life.
To provide and be dedicated to the development, preservation and management of decent, safe and affordable housing for lower income households in north dakota.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Promote rural housing and the general welfare of the community by acquiring, constructing, rehabilitation, and/or operating housing and related facilities for the benefit of eligible occupants
Provide low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with homes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Housing Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 COMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ANAWIM HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA PLANNING ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF LIFE D/B/A THE BEACON ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
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 · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · Chrysalis Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Greenstate Foundation · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Wells Fargo 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 Polk County Housing Trust Fund 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.