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South Story Bank Charitable Foundation at a glance

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South Story Bank Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$98kEnvironment$57kEducation$42kHealth$35kHuman Services$23kReligion$21kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Story County$14,624
Michael Henter Foundation$5,000
Hope Ministries$3,000
Beauty Amidst the Ashes$3,000
Bethlehem Lutheran Church$2,500
Nevada Parks and Recreation Department$2,500
Fjeldberg Lutheran Church$2,500
Food Bank of Iowa$2,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa$2,500
Trinity United Methodist Church$1,000
Mosaic at Home$1,000
Timber Creek Charities$1,000
Wildwood Hills Ranch of Iowa$1,000
Slater Community Club$950
Garden Gate Ranch$500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%Timber Creek Charities: $1k → 10%Pinky Swear Foundation: $3k → 11%Timber Creek Charities: $500 → 10%Beauty Amidst the Ashes: $4k → 10%Pinky Swear Foundation: $3k → 11%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $100 → 5%Timber Creek Charities: $500 → 10%Beauty Amidst the Ashes: $3k → 10%Pinky Swear Foundation: $3k → 11%Timber Creek Charities: $500 → 10%TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $250 → 10%TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $250 → 10%Timber Creek Charities: $250 → 10%Young Womens Resource Center: $60 → 10%Childserve Foundation: $3k → 17%HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICE: $550 → 17%WINGS OF REFUGE: $500 → 17%Overflow Thrift Store: $170 → 17%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$238k · 28 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
60

Total granted

$238k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+65%

Still filing today

61%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +5%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWA
    5× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +165%
  • BA
    BEAUTY AMIDST THE ASHES INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2019 · $57k · revenue -25%
  • A
    AGAPEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +316%
  • CF
    CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +65%
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
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
2
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

—
3
Iowa Scholarship Fund Inc

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.

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4
Stanley-University of Iowa Foundation Support Organization

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.

Education
5
Iowa Law School Foundation

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…

Education
6
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.

—
7
Bethany Lutheran Foundation

To support bethany lutheran home of council bluffs, ia in carrying out its mission.

Philanthropy
8
Iowa Historical Foundation

Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.

Arts & Culture
9
Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.

Housing & Shelter
10
Iowa Giving Crew

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

Unclassified
11
Isu Facilities Corporation

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.

Education
12
Iowa West Foundation
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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 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC: $91,853 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC+3 more: $3,150 · PhilanthropyBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CE…Nevada Parks and Recreation Department: $10,000 · OtherNevada Parks and Recreation De…BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6,780 · OtherBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCHFjeldberg Lutheran Church: $5,500 · OtherFjeldberg Lutheran ChurchWildwood Hills Ranch of Iowa: $4,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity: $3,810 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC: $5,650 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY …AGAPE: $4,000 · Other+62 more: $41,739 · Other+62 moreWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY: $56,881 · EnvironmentWHITEROCK CONSERVAN…DEB AND JEFF HANSEN FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentBALLARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $34,750 · EducationBALLARD EDUC…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Education+3 more: $1,500 · EducationPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesPINKY SWE…BEAUTY AMIDST THE ASHES INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesBEAUTY AM…HOPE MINISTRIES: $3,500 · Human ServicesHOPE MINI…TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $3,250 · Human ServicesTIMBER CR…CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSERV…+5 more: $1,380 · Human ServicesMICHAEL HENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+4 more: $775 · HealthFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $8,850 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$95,003Other$91,479Environment$58,881Education$38,250Human Services$29,630Health$16,775Food & Nutrition$8,850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC: $91,853 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY: $56,881 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBALLARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $34,750 over 7y, 18% of budgetMICHAEL HENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $8,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTY AMIDST THE ASHES INC: $6,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC: $5,650 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAGAPE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $3,250 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEB AND JEFF HANSEN FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Legal Aid Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTORY COUNTY HOUSING TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCE: $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuena Vista University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOTEL HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF REFUGE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLARD ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $370 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOverflow Thrift Store Inc: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJefferson Matters Main Street: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORI'S ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $60 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEB AND JEFF HANSEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STORY COUNTY HOUSING TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SLATER COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds IOWA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCE ↗

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…Prairie Meadows Race …The Merchants Bonding…The West Bancorporati…Pella Rolscreen Found…Alliant Energy Founda…Lsb FoundationMeredith Corporation …William C Knapp Chari…Raccoon Valley Bank C…Athene Charitable Fou…Variety - the Childre…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA46× affinity24 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 · 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

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 South Story Bank Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Story Bank Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 South Story Bank Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to South Story Bank Charitable Foundation 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 98 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-PF 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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