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Shining City Foundation Inc

Enhance the health and general welfare of underserved populations through improved living conditions, health care assistance, and educational opportunities.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$124k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$164kHealth$154kReligion$134kYouth Development$82kHuman Services$45k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $124k
$13,680
Median grant
1
States reached
$597k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTARY CLUB OF DMAM$123,528
MISSIO KALEO$13,680
FREEDOM FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%New DAWN Africa: $15k → 14%Youth Shelter Se: $10k → 17%DOROTHY'S HOUSE: $20k → 10%Dorothys House: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$459k · 7 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$459k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-28%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GI
    GENESIS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +64%
  • FF
    FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +26%
  • TR
    The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -28%
  • NS
    NAZARETH SISTERS OF ANNUNCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $16k
  • DA
    DANDORA AREA WELLNESS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE MAISHA-DAWA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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2
Rotary Club of Des Moines

Objective is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. to encourage and foster: the development of acquaintance, high ethical standards in business and professions. the application of the ideal of…

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3
St Gabriel Communications

Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the…

Religion
4
Relay Iowa Inc

Relay Iowa supports local Iowa charities that serve the community and Restoring Hope Village, a children's home in South Africa.

Human Services
5
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
6
World of Opportunity

World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…

Human Services
7
Redeeming Love Ministries

To partner with other organizations to spread the gospel message of Jesus Christ through education, feeding, and medical support of the indigent/orphaned children of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Youth Development
8
Development Assoc International

Enhancing the integrity and effectiveness of Christian leaders worldwide so that the Church can fulfill its role in extending the Kingdom of God.

Religion
9
Catholic Charities Foundation

None

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10
Youthfront Inc

Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.

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11
Damien Ministries Inc

Committed to supporting those abandoned or isolated in their suffering with HIV/AIDS, particularly the poorest of the poor, Damien Ministries fulfills its mission through dedication, commitment to ministry and mutual support.

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12
Iowa Giving Crew

Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sckic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rotary Foundaton: $110,720 · OtherRotary FoundatonTHE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: $82,800 · OtherTHE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GODNAZARETH SISTERS OF ANNUNCIATION: $15,545 · OtherNAZARETH SISTERS OF ANNUNCIATIONMISSION KITE STRING: $12,000 · OtherEASTLAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $11,450 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES AM FOUNDATION: $133,828 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES …GENESIS INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENESIS INCFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES: $37,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM FOR YOUT…SCKIC Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesSCKIC IncDANDORA AREA WELLNESS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE MAISHA-DAWA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDANDORA ARE…YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND S…ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATION: $34,528 · InternationalThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries: $14,236 · PhilanthropyMissio Kaleo: $13,680 · ReligionMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $9,200 · Health
Other$232,515Education$133,828Youth Development$82,000Human Services$60,000International$34,528Philanthropy$14,236Religion$13,680Health$9,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES AM FOUNDATION: $133,828 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetGENESIS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES: $37,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSCKIC Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATION: $34,528 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries: $14,236 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMissio Kaleo: $13,680 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $9,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Fdn of Grea…The West Bancorporati…Prairie Meadows Race …Alliant Energy Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shining City Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shining City Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Shining City Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Shining City Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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