· Public charity
Promise Partners
To empower a caring community that promises the well-being of every child.
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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $874k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southwest Iowa Families | $400,028 |
| Lutheran Family Services | $197,875 |
| West Central Community Action | $184,347 |
| Visiting Nurse Association | $96,358 |
| Cass County Public Health | $95,000 |
| Harrison County Home and Public Hea | $85,000 |
| Burgess Health Center | $85,000 |
| Mills County Public Health | $69,730 |
| Myrtue Medical Center | $60,506 |
| ISU Extension & Outreach Page Count | $49,987 |
| ISU Extension & OutreachFremont | $49,466 |
| Matura Action Corporation | $27,173 |
| Noble Initiative Foundation | $25,000 |
| Anita Childcare Center | $25,000 |
| Turnbull Child Development Center | $23,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 20 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $721k 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
- TVTHE VISITING NURSE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +316% · 88% of their budget
- FIFAMILY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +102% · 33% of their budget
- WCWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +1%
Funded once
- EBECI BOARDS-BOOST CORNER HMSone grant, 2022 · $37k
- ACAHST COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $16k
- LCLEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $16k
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.
Child day care center
Provide childcare services
Coulee childrens center, a provider of childcare services proudly empowers and strengthen families by focusing on healthy development and school readiness
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
Preschool and Daycare services for residents of Bloomfield and surrounding communities. We strive to provide quality daycare before and after school services and 3 year old preschool.
Public service for daycare
Provide day care services to the children in and around sac city, iowa
To offer quality child care at affordable prices.
To provide childcare services to working families, emphasizing a quality education and nutrition programs for children ages six weeks through thirteen years.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
To provide a safe, nurturing and enriching environment for k-5 students before and after school and during the summer.
Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Home Assn - Children's Square Usa and the most unlike its peers is Anita Foundation Inc. 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 34 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 THE VISITING NURSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BURGESS HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HOME ASSN - CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA ↗
- Who funds MATURA ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANITA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKIN FOUNDATION CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF GRISWOLD ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE CHILD DEV ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ESSEX CHILD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nishna Valley Family Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds KOUNTRY KIDS CHILD CARE ↗
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 Foundation for Western Iowa · Iowa West Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Clarinda Foundation Inc · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · 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 Promise Partners 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.