· Public charity
Shining City Foundation Inc
Enhance the health and general welfare of underserved populations through improved living conditions, health care assistance, and educational opportunities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of SHINING CITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY CLUB OF DMAM | $123,528 |
| MISSIO KALEO | $13,680 |
| FREEDOM FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- GIGENESIS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +64%
- FFFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +26%
- TRThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- RCROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -28%
- NSNAZARETH SISTERS OF ANNUNCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $16k
- DADANDORA AREA WELLNESS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE MAISHA-DAWA INCone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
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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.
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…
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.
Enhancing the integrity and effectiveness of Christian leaders worldwide so that the Church can fulfill its role in extending the Kingdom of God.
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Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
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Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc and 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.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES AM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SCKIC Inc ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANDORA AREA WELLNESS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE MAISHA-DAWA INC ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds Missio Kaleo ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA 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: 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
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 Shining City Foundation Inc 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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