· Private foundation
Stark Group Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST EDMOND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,791 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VTVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +28%
- ICIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue -44%
- AFAmerica's Family Coaches Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue -85%
Funded once
- CRCYCLONE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +38%
- UWUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -9%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +45%
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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 provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The Iowa Bicycle Coalition builds partnerships, educates Iowans, and helps to establish safe and enjoyable bicycle transportation and recreation networks throughout Iowa.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rebuilding Together Greater Des Moi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds America's Family Coaches Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT DODGE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CYCLONE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Stark Group Charitable 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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