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Premier Communications Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $72,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $52,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| GEHLEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CITY OF LAKE PARK | $12,500 |
| LE MARS AREA CHILDCARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOSPERS FIRE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% 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
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $344k · revenue +66%
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +26%
- SCSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- SCSioux Center Healthgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +91%
- LMLE MARS A REA BETTERMENT FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RVROCK VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $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.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
To advance and support the programs and operations of sioux center christian school, and conducting any and all business necessary in furtherance of these purposes.
Provision of a pre-k through 12th grade private school education with a christian worldview.
Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.
To provide a christian-based education to grades K-8
Christian school for area children
Encourage students to learn and apply god's truth while promoting academic excellence in a christian environment.
K-8 school
Faith Based Educational Services for All Grades in a School Setting.
Western christian high school foundation primary purpose is to support the christian education and instruction of high school students as provided by western christian high school in hull, iowa.
Iowa christian academy is committed to raising generations of leaders committed to christ, trained as his disciples, educated in a god-honoring, traditional education system emphasizing biblical values, morals, character and integrity
Christian academy school for grades pre-k-12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akron Opera House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 121 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 DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LE MARS AREA BETTERMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERRILL PIONEER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sioux Center Health ↗
- Who funds FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEGG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL D/B/A HEGG HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF SPENCER ↗
- Who funds HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Interstates Foundation · Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization · Vogel Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Demco Charitable Foundation · Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Vogel Charities Inc · Arlan J Van Wyk Family Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc
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 Premier Communications 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.
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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