· Community foundation
South Central Iowa Community Founda
Improve lives of South Central Iowa Community
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of South Central Iowa Community Founda’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.
The 26 grants below total $386,470 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $512,226 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $125,756 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Decatur County Conservation | $82,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,500 |
| Ringgold County Public Health | $24,990 |
| Southwestern Community College | $23,300 |
| Graceland University | $23,220 |
| Iowa State University | $19,960 |
| Princess Theater | $17,910 |
| University of Iowa | $12,900 |
| Southern Prairie Family Fitness Cen | $12,780 |
| Ringgold County Teen Center | $12,280 |
| Diagonal Community School | $12,230 |
| Mayflower Heritage Christian School | $11,850 |
| Lamoni Community School | $11,560 |
| Lucas County Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Ringgold County Community Foundatio | $9,900 |
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, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
63 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 12 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- MHMAYFLOWER HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +47%
- DCDECATUR COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORP3× · 2019–2022 · $69k · revenue +6% · 30% of their budget
- MAMATURA ACTION CORPORATION2× · 2019–2020 · $51k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- RCRinggold County Fair Boardone grant, 2024 · $30k
- UCUnion County Conservation Boardone grant, 2024 · $30k
- PTPRAIRIE TRAILS WELLNESS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue -19% · 37% of their budget
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
To provide a 4-h county fair.
Restoration and display of historical items pertinent to fremont county, iowa
To provide entertainment and food at the four county fair in dunlap, ia.
To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties
Restoration and preservation of historical landmark building
Preserve History of Area
Columbia county fair
The organization was formed to provide affordable, family-oriented entertainment to the greater audubon county, iowa, area.
Provide recreational activities
To support agriculture education and development for youths in lee county, iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ringgold County Outdoor Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Union County Historical Society. 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 23 years old; the field is 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 141 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 GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS THEATER TROUPE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RINGGOLD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds THE LAMONI FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MATURA ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CORNING OPERA HOUSE CULTURAL CENTER ATTN JIM HEATON ↗
- Who funds RINGGOLD COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lucas County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds HIGH LAKES OUTDOOR ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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 · Dekko Foundation Inc · The Vredenburg Foundation · Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation · Csb Foundation · The Morgan E Cline Perpetual Charitable Foundation · The Wellmark Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life
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 South Central Iowa Community Founda 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.