· Private foundation
The Accel Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - LINN CO | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - DSM CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| WAVERLY CHILDCARE | $5,000 |
| WARTBURG COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WAYPOINT SERVICES | $1,667 |
| ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $1,064 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $1,063 |
| HACAP | $1,063 |
| IOWA DONOR NETWORK | $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 (FY19–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Accel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- PMPROSPECT MEADOWS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue ×13
- CVCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +83%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK5× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
- ARANNIES RIDEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
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…
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…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
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…
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is The Hall-Perrine Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 126 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 WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC ↗
- Who funds FEED IOWA FIRST ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY-SHELL ROCK AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE LARRABEE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA DONOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds YWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Mercy Medical Center · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program 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 The Accel 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.