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ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATION
The Foundation supports the charitable, civic, and educational activities of the Rotary Club of Des Moines.
$113k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATION’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
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ATTAIN$40,000
- ROTARY INTERNATIONAL$15,625
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $46k) 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.
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Common Good Iowa
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.
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Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors
To promote the greater des moines area
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Des Moines Area Food Bank
To alleviate hunger in our community by providing food assistance to any person in need.
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Family Promise of Greater Des Moines
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
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Invest Dsm
Provide holistic and innovative solutions that strengthen neighborhoods. we do this through strategic investments in real estate and partnerships to improve quality of life.
Housing & Shelter
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Prevent Blindness Iowa
to prevent blindness and preserve sight
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Downtown Dsm Inc
Provides leadership, initiative, and advocacy in order to achieve shared solutions and a shared vision for the future of downtown des moines.
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Iowa Center for Children's Justice
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services.
Civil Rights
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St Cloud Downtown Alliance Foundation
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
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Delaware County Foundation
Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving
Philanthropy
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Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines
Promote charitable giving, connect donors with causes, provide leadership on community issues
Philanthropy
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Des Moines Childrens Museum
To build the foundation of lifelong learning by promoting the power of play.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Council for Social Concern Inc and the most unlike its peers is Des Moines Council of St Vincent De. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$222,018Human Services$45,750Environment$40,000Philanthropy$40,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Food & Nutrition$5,750
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.
Prairie Meadows Race Track and CasinoIA22.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · United Way of Central Iowa · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES 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.
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 · 0–5%
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: COURAGE LEAGUE SPORTS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 461443733 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 COURAGE LEAGUE SPORTS, 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 contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% 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 Rotary Club of Des Moines Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Des Moines Foundation 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.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines