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Southwest Iowa Foundation
Support Omaha Community Foundation's Mission.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $408,334 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,124,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $716,224 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SW IA Nonprofit - Coll Impact | $166,668 |
| Council Bluffs Schools Fdn | $83,334 |
| East Mills Child Care Solutio | $75,000 |
| CHI Health FdnMercy Hsp Fdn | $33,333 |
| Jennie Edmundson Mem Hsp Fdn | $33,333 |
| Community Fdn For Western IA | $16,666 |
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 (FY24–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -9% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- PCPottawattamie County Development Corporation3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue -9%
- SISOUTHWEST IOWA NONPROFIT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT4× · 2021–2024 · $575k · revenue -47% · 26% of their budget
- CBCOUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue -65%
Funded once
- CBCOUNCIL BLUFFS SOCCER CLUBone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -43%
- OCOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSICone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -13%
- COCITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFSone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Chamber of commerce foundation
Strengthen businesses and build partnerships that promote economic growth and community development.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
The Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau conducts a comprehensive marketing program for the purpose of promoting Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County in a manner that results in a positive economic impact through travel,…
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 mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The mission of twin cities development is to promote economic and community development in scotts bluff county and other surrounding communities in western nebraska.
Benefit charitable and educational community projects in the jackson county area.
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Mills Child Care Solutions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 Pottawattamie County Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IOWA NONPROFIT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST MILLS CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL BLUFFS SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
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: Iowa West Foundation · Community Foundation for Western Iowa · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · The Nelson Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Southwest Iowa 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.