How much did Resources Unite grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of Resources Unite’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

dubuquefood

2019

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2020

suffering

2021

veterans

2022

—

2023

increasedhousingchildren

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,200

Median grant

States reached

$223k

Total assets

Largest grants

Centrally Rooted$13,200
Honor Flight of Dubuque$13,200
Inspriation Stables$12,800
The Maria House$12,700

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Dubuque and Jackson County Habitat for

To build affordable and decent housing for low income families

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Dubuque Food Pantry

To provide food to the needy in the dubuque area

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Disability Rights South Dakota

Advocacy sevices for qualified individuals with disabilities

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Disability Rights Iowa

To advance through all resources the human and legal rights of individuals with disabilities. disability rights iowa provides free legal and non-legal advocacy assistance to persons with mental illness, disabilities and certain social…

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Dubuque Regional Humane Society

The dubuque regional humane society is an open admissions and no kill facility that works to protect and promote the well being of all animals by fostering respect for their inherent dignity.

Animals

Iowa Center for Children's Justice

ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services.

Civil Rights

Dubuque Jaycees Foundation

Provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change

Community Improvement

Mid-Iowa Workshops Inc

To provide employment for the disabled

Employment

Fhc of Storm Lake Iowa Inc

Care and support of special needs children and young adults

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Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa

Variety - the children's charity of iowa is dedicated to improving the lives of children who are at risk, underprivileged, critically ill, or living with special needs.

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Northwoods Inc of Wisconsin

Service for disabled adults

Human Services

Dubuque Main Street Ltd

Plan,manage and implement downtown services

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubuque Community Y and the most unlike its peers is The Fountain of Youth Program. 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 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 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

14%

4/29

the rest of the field

27/541

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

19/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$145,942Health$40,000Public Benefit$33,200Human Services$32,800Youth Development$23,200Employment$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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.

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 of Greater DubuqueIA41.1× affinity17 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 · United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States · James B & Melita a McDonough · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Heartland Charitable Trust · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Schoen Family Charitable Trust · Mathis Pfohl 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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Dubuque County Firefighters Association.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 421505384 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Dubuque County Firefighters Association, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Resources Unite?

Find your warmest path to Resources Unite through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Resources Unite

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Resources Unite?

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Resources Unite

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Resources Unite?

More from the funding graph