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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.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$56kHuman Services$51kPhilanthropy$43kEducation$43kRecreation & Sports$40kFood & Nutrition$28kHousing & Shelter$22kReligion$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$1,063
Median grant
3
States reached
$90k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - LINN CO$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY$10,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - DSM CHAPTER$10,000
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA$5,000
WAVERLY CHILDCARE$5,000
WARTBURG COLLEGE$5,000
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK$2,500
CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,500
WAYPOINT SERVICES$1,667
Individual grant recipient$1,500
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION$1,500
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK$1,064
HACAP$1,063
FOOD BANK OF IOWA$1,063
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$1,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $1k → 11%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $5k → 10%THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $1k → 9%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $150 → 9%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $3k → 7%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $500 → 15%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $3k → 7%FOUR OAKS: $2k → 9%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $3k → 7%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $3k → 7%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $565 → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $1k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $1k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $500 → 10%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 7%FOUR OAKS: $500 → 9%THE LARRABEE CENTER: $500 → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER: $500 → 7%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $250 → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $250 → 9%THE LARRABEE CENTER: $500 → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER: $500 → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $250 → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $250 → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER: $250 → 7%CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $120 → 9%LARRABEE CENTER: $250 → 7%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $2k → 9%LARRABEE CENTER: $250 → 7%THE LARRABEE CENTER: $150 → 7%CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE: $215 → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $500 → 9%DEAFINITELY DOGS: $300 → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Accel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Accel Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 49 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
66

Total granted

$211k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PM
    PROSPECT MEADOWS INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue ×13
  • CV
    CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +83%
  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PB
    PATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -17%
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
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.

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2
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
3
United Way of North Central 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…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
6
Children's Cancer Connection

Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.

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7
Reach for Your Potential Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
10
Iowa Legal Aid Foundation

To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.

Crime & Legal
11
Iowa River Hospice Inc

Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.

Human Services
12
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services; 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.
05the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
43/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $15,030 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INCSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - DSM CHAPTER: $10,000 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - DSM CHAPTERSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - LINN CO: $10,000 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE - LINN COHACAP: $7,305 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherFOUNDATION 2 INC: $5,865 · OtherCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $5,321 · Other+78 more: $95,414 · Other+78 moreLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVI…CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $10,215 · Human ServicesCEDAR VALLEY H…THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $3,400 · Human ServicesTHE LARRABEE C…CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $3,135 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND F…FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES: $1,667 · Human Services+10 more: $7,126 · Human Services+10 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA: $23,666 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyZACH JOHNSON F…WILDWOOD HILLS INC: $5,300 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD HILLS…WAVERLY-SHELL ROCK AREA UNITED WAY: $3,965 · PhilanthropyWAVERLY-SHELL …UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWARTBURG COLLEGE: $26,000 · EducationWARTBURG CO…CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationCEDAR RAPID…Riverview Center Inc: $1,250 · Education+4 more: $3,500 · Education+4 morePROSPECT MEADOWS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $10,686 · Food & NutritionFEED IOWA FIRST: $5,750 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,063 · Food & NutritionPATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 · HealthST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $4,675 · HealthHIS HANDS MINISTRIES: $2,500 · HealthORCHARD PLACE: $2,500 · HealthTANAGER PLACE: $1,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $692 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$154,935Human Services$42,543Philanthropy$41,431Education$33,750Recreation & Sports$25,100Food & Nutrition$17,499Health$16,867

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT MEADOWS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA: $23,666 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $15,030 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $10,686 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $10,215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION 2 INC: $5,865 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED IOWA FIRST: $5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $5,321 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $5,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $4,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAVERLY-SHELL ROCK AREA UNITED WAY: $3,965 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $3,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA DONOR NETWORK: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $3,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIS HANDS MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORCHARD PLACE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $2,472 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Square Meals Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $1,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRiverview Center Inc: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRY PIE: $1,175 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $1,131 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,063 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 380 FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSFM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Iowa Arts Academy: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS JOHNSON COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $692 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $565 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 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 Green Square Meals Inc ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Greater Cedar Rapids …GreenState Credit Uni…Mercy Medical CenterDupaco RW Hoefer Foun…John P & Lawrence J G…Otto Schoitz Foundati…Max and Helen Guernse…Lsb FoundationHills Bank Donor Advi…The Hall-Perrine Foun…Hawkeye Area Communit…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI73.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Accel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Accel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 126 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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