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Iowa · Public charity

Proteus Inc

The purpose of proteus shall be to raise the standard of living of migrant seasonal farmworkers and other low-income people by implementing educational, employment, economic development, health care, and other service programs for the poor, the disadvangtaged and low-skilled.

$1.9M
Granted FY2021
6
Itemized grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$325k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$49,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$94,000
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$2.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa$94,000119%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque$54,00012%
La Luz Hispana$49,500119%
Ne Iowa Peace & Justice Center Inc$49,5001n/a
Centro Latino of Iowa$48,000113%
Presbyterian Church USA$29,7561n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Proteus Inc

How much does Proteus Inc give?
Proteus Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $324,756, out of $1,945,653 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Proteus Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Employment (85%), International (15%).
Who are Proteus Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa ($94k), Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque ($54k), La Luz Hispana ($50k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Proteus Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Proteus Inc based?
Proteus Inc is based in IA.

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 6 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $858k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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