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R & R Realty Group 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.

$421k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$104k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$557kHealth$476kReligion$341kYouth Development$209kRecreation & Sports$208kHuman Services$109kArts & Culture$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY$103,500
DOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$75,000
ST JOSEPH PARISH$66,667
DIOCESE OF DES MOINES$33,333
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$16,667
EVERYSTEP FOUNDATION$15,581
GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
WESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION$5,000
YMCA OF GREATER DES MOINES$5,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE DES MOINES$5,000
GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION$5,000
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $100k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $50k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $50k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $50k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $10k → 5%INNERVISIONS HEALTHCARE: $9k → 5%THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%DOROTHYS HOUSE: $15k → 10%DOROTHYS HOUSE: $15k → 10%DOROTHYS HOUSE: $7k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
IA
PA
NE
MO
KS
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 54 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
49

Total granted

$3.1M
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+32%

Still filing today

59%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +49%
  • TH
    THE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA
    6× · 2017–2023 · $269k · revenue +175%
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY IVY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
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
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
3
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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4
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
5
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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6
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

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7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
8
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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9
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
10
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
11
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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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Des Moines Partnership; the most unlike its peers is The Veil Removed. 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

67 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. 67 of the 122 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY: $469,000 · OtherUNITED WAYHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $212,500 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $133,334 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHDIOCESE OF DES MOINES: $109,999 · OtherDIOCESE OF DES MOINESUNITYPOINT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $99,000 · OtherDOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $86,975 · OtherST JOSEPH PARISH: $66,667 · Other+85 more: $726,133 · Other+85 moreIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $550,001 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUN…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $207,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $40,200 · Education+3 more: $9,500 · EducationTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $269,040 · Human ServicesTHE HUMAN C…SCKIC Inc: $37,173 · Human ServicesSCKIC IncTHE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE MOSAIC …+3 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $104,600 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $10,400 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $53,649 · PhilanthropyQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50,828 · PhilanthropyWAUKEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyURBANDALE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $34,380 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $33,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,100 · Animals
Other$1,903,608Education$806,701Human Services$347,713Youth Development$184,000Philanthropy$120,477Community Improvement$77,880Animals$56,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $550,001 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $269,040 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $207,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $104,600 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $53,649 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $53,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50,828 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $50,600 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $40,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DES MOINES: $38,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSCKIC Inc: $37,173 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetURBANDALE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $34,380 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDSERVE INC: $33,748 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $33,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES WATER WORKS PARK FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $24,177 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC: $15,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSINGLE PARENT PROVISION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTRANDS OF STRENGTH INC: $6,560 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $5,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $5,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VEIL REMOVED: $5,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $4,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUALITY LIVING INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAN PLAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONIOWA CHAPTER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,452 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKICKS FOR A CURE INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER OMAHA ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS ETHICS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds SCKIC Inc ↗
  • Who funds URBANDALE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES WATER WORKS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK 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.

The West Bancorporati…The Merchants Bonding…Community Fdn of Grea…Ita Group FoundationEMC Insurance Foundat…Prairie Meadows Race …Meredith Corporation …Lsb FoundationGreenState Credit Uni…William C Knapp Chari…Pella Rolscreen Found…United Way of Central…
The West Bancorporation Foundation IncIA55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Ita Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Lsb Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa

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 R & R Realty Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R & R Realty Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 122 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home