· Private foundation
Ted & Rowena Crosbie Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DM | $10,000 |
| OBESITY AWARENESS IN ACTION | $10,000 |
| GOLF CHARITABLE FOUND OF GREATER DM | $10,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF DES MOINES AM FOUND | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA | $5,000 |
| CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GREATER DM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE OF CARROLL | $2,500 |
| PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS | $1,029 |
| BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUND | $1,000 |
| LOVE FOR RED INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WFWorld Food Prize Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $195k · revenue +51%
- GCGOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +18%
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- GOGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
- GDGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +163%
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.
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.
Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
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…
To promote and develop the visitors and convention industry in the greater des moines area and to encourage the utilization of facilities for visitors and conventions.
The mission of the jewish federation of greater des moines is to further the continuity and welfare of the des moines, ames, and other central iowa jewish communities, and to enable these jewish communities to maximize their resources by…
The community foundation of greater dubuque grows philanthropy to improve life in northeast iowa by serving donors, strengthening nonprofits and leading collaborative initiatives to address community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/a Greater Des Moines Community Fdn and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 World Food Prize Foundation ↗
- Who funds URBAN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS HUNT INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF CARROLL INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE FOR RED INC ↗
- Who funds BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Businessolver Foundation · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Athene Charitable Foundation
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 Ted & Rowena Crosbie 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.