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Prospice at a glance

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Prospice

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$92kHealth$49kReligion$42kEducation$36kEnvironment$22kHuman Services$500Food & Nutrition$300Animals$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$614k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDSERVE$21,500
DES MOINES METRO OPERA$12,000
DES MOINES ART CENTER$11,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART$3,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$1,000
IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$1,000
PLYMOUTH CHURCH$1,000
ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER$500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER: $500 → 5%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $15k → 6%IOWA NATURE SUMMIT: $1k → 10%THE ART CENTER OF CHICAGO: $285 → 14%ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER: $500 → 5%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $12k → 6%IOWA NATURE SUMMIT: $1k → 10%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $1k → 14%ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER: $500 → 5%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $4k → 6%IOWA NATURE SUMMIT: $1k → 10%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $1k → 14%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $3k → 6%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $1k → 10%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $3k → 6%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 10%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $2k → 6%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $1k → 10%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $2k → 6%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $2k → 6%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DES MOINES METRO OPERA: $2k → 6%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $1k → 6%GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART: $4k → 10%GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART: $4k → 10%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER DES MOINES: $500 → 10%HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 10%HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC: $5k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $22k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $20k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $5k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $20k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $15k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $11k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $11k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $11k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $10k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $2k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $2k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $1k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $1k → 10%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 12 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$225k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EA
    Edmundson Art Foundation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +80%
  • CI
    CHILDSERVE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue +114%
  • SC
    Simpson College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +12%
  • TA
    THE ART CENTER OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $285
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
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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3
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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4
Iowa Medical Society

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

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5
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
6
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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8
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
9
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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10
Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote and develop the visitors and convention industry in the greater des moines area and to encourage the utilization of facilities for visitors and conventions.

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11
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Metro Opera Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDSERVE INC: $46,500 · OtherCHILDSERVE INCPLYMOUTH CHURCH: $37,200 · OtherPLYMOUTH CHURCHHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART: $7,000 · OtherGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ARTHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $10,185 · Other+10 moreEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $57,300 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation IncDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $22,100 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC+2 more: $200 · Arts & CultureSimpson College: $23,000 · EducationSimpson Co…IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $21,500 · EnvironmentIOWA NATUR…+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC: $1,500 · HealthFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$115,885Arts & Culture$79,600Education$23,000Environment$21,600Health$1,500Food & Nutrition$100

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 budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $57,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDSERVE INC: $46,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSimpson College: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $22,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELPING HAND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Simpson College ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HELPING HAND ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds THE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA ↗

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.

Meredith Corporation …Gartner Family Founda…Mary K and Daniel M K…Bookey Family Foundat…EMC Insurance Foundat…Lauridsen Family Foun…Brenton FoundationR & R Realty Group Fo…Fred Maytag Family Fo…Krause Gentle Foundat…Ita Group FoundationThe Merchants Bonding…
Meredith Corporation FoundationIA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meredith Corporation Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Lauridsen Family Foundation · Brenton Foundation · R & R Realty Group Foundation · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Krause Gentle Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company 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 Prospice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prospice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 24 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-PF 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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