· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k17 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| SINGLE PARENT PROVISION | $5,000 |
| WESLEYLIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE DES MOINES | $5,000 |
| IOWANS FOR LIFE DBA PULSE LIFE ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
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, $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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +49%- THTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA6× · 2017–2023 · $269k · revenue +151%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $35k
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISIone grant, 2017 · $26k
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY IVY COLLEGE OF BUSINESSone grant, 2024 · $17k
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.
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.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Des Moines Partnership and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 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. 67 of the 122 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 R & R Realty Group Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.