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Promise Partners

To empower a caring community that promises the well-being of every child.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.7MEducation$3.1MHuman Services$3.0MEmployment$82kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $874k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$27,173
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Burgess Health Center$85,000
Harrison County Home and Public Hea$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kids in the Village: $22k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $297k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $196k → 9%Ann Wickman Child Development Cente: $15k → 14%West Central Community Action: $184k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $176k → 9%Noble Initiative Foundation: $25k → 14%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $165k → 9%FAMILY INC: $511k → 12%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $142k → 9%FAMILY INC: $502k → 12%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $135k → 9%Lutheran Family Services: $469k → 12%West Central Community Action: $128k → 9%FAMILY INC: $457k → 12%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $112k → 9%FAMILY INC: $436k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK: $361k → 12%FAMILY INC: $349k → 12%Lutheran Family Services: $198k → 12%FAMILY INC: $109k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK: $105k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $39k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $34k → 12%CHRISTIAN HOME ASSOCIATION CHILDREN: $32k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $30k → 12%Christian Home Association: $27k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $24k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 8 repeat orgs$816k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$9.1M
$96k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $721k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TV
    THE VISITING NURSE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +316% · 88% of their budget
  • FI
    FAMILY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +102% · 33% of their budget
  • LF
    LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • EB
    ECI BOARDS-BOOST CORNER HMS
    one grant, 2022 · $37k
  • LC
    LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • AC
    AHST COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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2
Children's Center

Provide childcare services

Human Services
3
Coulee Children's Center Inc

Coulee childrens center, a provider of childcare services proudly empowers and strengthen families by focusing on healthy development and school readiness

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4
Grand View Child Development Center Inc

Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities

Human Services
5
Davis County Day Care Center

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.

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6
Child Care Choicesinc

Public service for daycare

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7
Kids World Inc

Provide day care services to the children in and around sac city, iowa

Human Services
8
County North Children's Center Inc

To offer quality child care at affordable prices.

Human Services
9
Child Day Care Association Inc

To provide childcare services to working families, emphasizing a quality education and nutrition programs for children ages six weeks through thirteen years.

Human Services
10
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Walnut Acres Day Care Center Inc

To provide a safe, nurturing and enriching environment for k-5 students before and after school and during the summer.

Human Services
12
Christ Church Day Care Inc

Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Home Assn - Children's Square Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY INC: $2,363,757 · Human ServicesFAMILY INCWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $1,536,246 · Human ServicesWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTIONLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $1,285,438 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC+4 more: $120,973 · Human ServicesTHE VISITING NURSE FOUNDATION: $2,473,999 · HealthTHE VISITING NURSE FOUNDATIONSOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC: $1,075,482 · HealthSOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC+1 more: $85,000 · HealthPOTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $154,748 · OtherPOTTAWATTA…COUNCIL BLUFFS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $144,039 · OtherCOUNCIL BL…CASS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $95,000 · OtherCASS COUNT…Harrison County Home and Public Hea: $85,000 · OtherHarrison C…MILLS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH: $69,730 · OtherMILLS COUN…SHELBY COUNTY CHRIS A MYRTUE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $60,506 · OtherSHELBY COU…ISU Extension & Outreach Page Count: $49,987 · OtherISU Extens…ISU Extension & OutreachFremont: $49,466 · OtherISU Extens…ECI BOARDS-BOOST CORNER HMS: $37,300 · Other+12 more: $156,020 · Other+12 moreMATURA ACTION CORPORATION: $27,173 · Community ImprovementANITA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentKOUNTRY KIDS CHILD CARE: $14,073 · Education
Human Services$5,306,414Health$3,634,481Other$901,796Community Improvement$27,173Youth Development$25,000Education$14,073

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VISITING NURSE FOUNDATION: $2,473,999 over 9y, 88% of budgetFAMILY INC: $2,363,757 over 6y, 33% of budgetWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $1,536,246 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $1,285,438 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC: $1,075,482 over 9y, 13% of budgetBURGESS HEALTH CENTER: $85,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN HOME ASSN - CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA: $58,973 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMATURA ACTION CORPORATION: $27,173 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANITA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetOUR HOUSE CHILD DEV: $23,100 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetKIDS IN THE VILLAGE: $22,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetESSEX CHILD CENTER: $16,800 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNishna Valley Family Young Mens Christian Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Iowa West FoundationDelta Dental of Iowa …First Interstate Banc…Clarinda Foundation I…Todd and Mary Heistan…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Western IowaIA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Promise Partners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Promise Partners. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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