· Public charity
The Iowa Clinic Healthcare Foundation
To provide ongoing philanthropic support to charitable organizations in central iowa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $75,580 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $93,318 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,738 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
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KICK IT FORWARD | $30,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $15,780 |
| DMARC | $10,000 |
| DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $7,500 |
| CHILDRENFAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT | $6,000 |
| MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND | $5,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $56k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 87% of The Iowa Clinic Healthcare 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. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 21% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA5× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +90%
- CACHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +9%
- JJOPPA2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CCCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $87k · revenue -56%
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +145%
- FFFAMILIES FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +172%
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.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
We believe that access to affordable healthcare is a basic human necessity, and we strive to provide the widest range of medical servoces possible to the people in the iowa city and surrounding community who would not otherwise have access…
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
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…
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
To lead the community wide effort to end hunger in eastern iowa and western illinois. we will do this by leveraging partnerships to help people in need to stabilize their lives, engaging the public on hunger issues, advocating on behalf of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals From the Heartland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kick It Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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 KICK IT FORWARD ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CAN PLAY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BIDWELL RIVERSIDE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOPPA ↗
- Who funds BRICKER PRICE BLOCK RESTORATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds STARTS RIGHT HERE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINICS OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYLIFE ↗
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 · United Way of Central Iowa · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Lsb Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines
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 Iowa Clinic Healthcare 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.
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