· Private foundation
South Story Bank Charitable 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 $10k19 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Story County | $14,624 |
| Michael Henter Foundation | $5,000 |
| Beauty Amidst the Ashes | $3,000 |
| Hope Ministries | $3,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa | $2,500 |
| Bethlehem Lutheran Church | $2,500 |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $2,500 |
| Nevada Parks and Recreation Department | $2,500 |
| Fjeldberg Lutheran Church | $2,500 |
| Mosaic at Home | $1,000 |
| Wildwood Hills Ranch of Iowa | $1,000 |
| Timber Creek Charities | $1,000 |
| Trinity United Methodist Church | $1,000 |
| Slater Community Club | $950 |
| Garden Gate Ranch | $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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +5%
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA5× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +165%
- BABEAUTY AMIDST THE ASHES INC2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- WCWHITEROCK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2019 · $57k · revenue -25%
- AAGAPEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +316%
- INIOWA NATIONAL GUARD WARRIORS & FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The iowa scholarship fund solicits gifts to provide financial support exclusively for scholarships (tuition, room, board, and fees) to students who participate in intercollegiate athletics at the university of iowa.
Provide grants to the state university of iowa foundation in accordance with exempt purpose, which in turn grants funds to the state university of iowa.
The iowa law school foundation provides the university of iowa college of law with a margin of distinction in fulfilling its mission of excellence in teaching, research and services by maintaining funds to use and apply the whole or any…
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.
To support bethany lutheran home of council bluffs, ia in carrying out its mission.
Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.
Assist in the construction and acquisition of real property facilities useful to iowa state university, and thereafter lease such facilities to the board of regents for the use of iowa state university.
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 Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 98 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 UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BALLARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL HENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds BEAUTY AMIDST THE ASHES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA FOUNDATION BRETT BARKER PRESIDENT ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds DEB AND JEFF HANSEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORY COUNTY HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds SLATER COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds IOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCE ↗
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 · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundation · Athene Charitable Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa
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 Story Bank Charitable 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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