· Private foundation
Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| NEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ALL STRINGS ATTACHED | $6,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC TELEVISION | $6,000 |
| SAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAC COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF CONCERN FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| COON RAPIDS BAYARD FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $3,500 |
| EAST SAC COUNTY MUSIC BOOSTERS | $3,000 |
| COON RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE | $2,750 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +110%- WFWorld Food Prize Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +51%
- NHNEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2017 · $11k
- CFCOMM FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY - COON RAPIDS-BAYARD ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2017 · $8k
- MWMARGARET WEBER-ISU FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
Child day care center
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
To provide a source of daycare to the citizens of sanborn, iowa.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
To improve member newspapers
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
To provide nurturing and educational childcare services.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Arboretum Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STRINGS ATTACHED ↗
- Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COON RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds IOWA ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIL WILDCAT EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL AREA CHILD CARE CENTER AND PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BREDA DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY DAY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WORLD INC ↗
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: Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Roswell and Elizabeth Garst 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.
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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