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Resources Unite

Resources Unite's mission is to connect people to resources and volunteer opportunities that lead to a happier and more engaged way of life.

$125k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Human Services$76kHealth$74kHousing & Shelter$33kPublic Benefit$23kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$20kCivil Rights$19kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $51,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,125 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,225 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$13,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Centrally Rooted$13,200
Honor Flight of Dubuque$13,200
Inspriation Stables$12,800
The Maria House$12,700
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 11%Inspriation Stables: $13k → 10%YMCA YWCA Victim Services Shelter: $10k → 11%Pay It Forward - Connolly: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Dubuque Food Pantry

Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area

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2
Disability Rights South Dakota

Advocacy services for qualified individuals with disabilities

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3
Decorah Community Food Pantry

Share food with local iowans facing food insecurity. we strive to interact with clients in a welcoming and respectful manner.

Human Services
4
Fhc of Storm Lake Iowa Inc

Care and support of special needs children and young adults

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5
Dubuque Main Street Ltd

Plan, manage and implement downtown services

Community Improvement
6
Iowa River Hospice Inc

Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.

Human Services
7
Northeast Dupage Family and Youth Services Inc

Delivery of social services for families and youth in need.

Human Services
8
Dakota Family Services

Dakota family services is a group of compassionate and practiced experts providing outpatient care through a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.

Health
9
Heart of Iowa Big Brothers Big Sisters

Provide adult guidance to single parent children.

Human Services
10
Heal House of Iowa

Heal house of iowa endeavors to provide a hand-up to teens, families, and individuals in distress by providing safe shelter and support. heal house of iowa will, when possible, assist served individuals in identifying and linking to…

Housing & Shelter
11
Dubois Area Food Pantry Inc

Food and nonfood assistance to individuals

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12
Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity

To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubuque Dream Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Rooted Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 26. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%9%<5yr9%18%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr17%14%35–55yr25%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%10%<5yr9%21%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr17%14%35–55yr25%15%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund close more than the field — 14% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
14%
4/29
the rest of the field
6%
34/541

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Key City Pride — $19,489 · OtherKey City PrideOPENING DOORS — $12,700 · OtherOPENING DOORSLiberty Recovery Foundation (Operation Empower) — $12,000 · OtherLiberty Recovery Foundation (Operation Empower)Live Like Jack — $11,253 · OtherLive Like JackHOSPICE OF DUBUQUE — $10,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF DUBUQUEAlmost Home — $10,000 · OtherAlmost HomeSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $10,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULNORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS — $10,000 · OtherNORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSST STEPHENS FOODBANK — $10,000 · OtherST STEPHENS FOODBANKDubuque Coalition for Domestic Violence — $10,000 · OtherDubuque Coalition for Domestic ViolenceMiracle League of Dubuque — $10,000 · OtherMiracle League of DubuqueST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $10,000 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INCHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $10,000 · HealthHILLS AND DALE…THE PREGNANCY CENTER — $10,000 · HealthTHE PREGNANCY …SPECIAL SPACES INC — $10,000 · HealthSPECIAL SPACES…COMPASS TO CARE — $10,000 · HealthCOMPASS TO CAR…HONOR FLIGHT OF DUBUQUE AND THE TRI STATES — $13,200 · Public BenefitHONOR FLIGHT…VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS FRE…NO FOOT TOO SMALL — $10,000 · Public BenefitNO FOOT TOO …INSPIRATION STABLES INC — $12,800 · Human ServicesINSPIRATION …PAY IT FOREWARD CONNOLLY — $10,000 · Human ServicesPAY IT FOREW…DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y — $10,000 · Human ServicesDUBUQUE COMM…CENTRALLY ROOTED MISSION INC — $13,200 · Youth DevelopmentDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Fountain of Youth Program — $10,000 · EmploymentPROJECT ROOTED INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionDUBUQUE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSN — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$145,942Health$40,000Public Benefit$33,200Human Services$32,800Youth Development$23,200Employment$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTRALLY ROOTED MISSION INC — $13,200 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetINSPIRATION STABLES INC — $12,800 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOPENING DOORS — $12,700 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST STEPHENS FOODBANK — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL SPACES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPASS TO CARE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ROOTED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDUBUQUE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSN — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNO FOOT TOO SMALL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Dubuque Racing Associ…Alliant Energy Founda…James B & Melita a Mc…Spahn & Rose Lumber C…Ay McDonald Charitabl…Heartland Charitable …United Way of Dubuque…Schoen Family Charita…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Mathis Pfohl Foundati…Herrig Charitable Fou…
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States · Schoen Family Charitable Trust · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · Herrig Charitable Foundation

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 Resources Unite 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Resources Unite?

    Find your warmest path to Resources Unite through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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