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Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of the Hotel Pattee | $75,000 |
| Perry Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Food Bank Of Iowa | $6,285 |
| The FullhartCarnegie Charitable Trust | $5,000 |
| Dallas Country Fair Foundation | $3,000 |
| Grimes Storehouse Inc | $3,000 |
| Good Samaritan Food Pantry Inc | $3,000 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities | $2,850 |
| Des Moines Children's Museum | $2,500 |
| Minburn United Methodist Church | $2,500 |
| Pery Area Emergency Food Council | $2,500 |
| Dallas Center Food Pantry | $2,500 |
| Whiterock Conservancy | $2,250 |
| Ride the Thin Blue Line Inc | $2,000 |
| Art on the Prairie | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 20 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- DCDALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +56%
- WCWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +16%
- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- PEPERRY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -84%
- DCDALLAS CENTER GRIMES BOOSTER CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +124% · 28% of their budget
- PCPerry Community School Districtone grant, 2024 · $32k
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.
The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.
The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…
Iowa first fund was organized for the purpose of educating and informing iowa voters about limited government and expanding economic opportunity.
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…
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.
The iowa cooperative foundation is organized for charitable, scientific and education purposes. the foundation is organized, and will be operated by, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa 4-H Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Fullhartcarnegie Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 144 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 PERRY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER GRIMES BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Raccoon River Pet Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE PERRY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PERRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds GRIMES STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPURGEON MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FULLHARTCARNEGIE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Grimes Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRENTON ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTER 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Home State Bank Charitable Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Bock Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · South Story Bank Charitable Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance 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 Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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