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The Iowa Clinic Healthcare Foundation

To provide ongoing philanthropic support to charitable organizations in central iowa.

$93k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$186kRecreation & Sports$186kHousing & Shelter$65kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$29kHealth$19kCommunity Improvement$15kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $75,580, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,318 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,738 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$296k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 10%DMARC: $10k → 10%JOPPA OUTREACH: $10k → 10%JOPPA OUTREACH: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 10%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 87% of The Iowa Clinic Healthcare Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 21%.

The Iowa Clinic Healthcare 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 6 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$340k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +90%
  • CA
    CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +9%
  • J
    JOPPA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $87k · revenue -56%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +145%
  • FF
    FAMILIES FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +172%
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
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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2
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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3
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement
4
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

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…

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5
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Iowa City Free Medical Clinic

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…

Health
7
Reach for Resources Inc

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.

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8
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
9
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
10
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
11
Community Health Care Inc

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.

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12
River Bend Food Reservoir

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals From the Heartland Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KICK IT FORWARD: $155,500 · Recreation & SportsKICK IT FORWARDCAN PLAY: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCAN PLAYFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $90,420 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWACLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $87,000 · Food & NutritionCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES+1 more: $5,800 · Food & NutritionYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND S…JOPPA: $15,106 · Human ServicesJOPPADES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $10,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINES …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…FAMILIES FORWARD: $25,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWA…BIDWELL RIVERSIDE CENTER: $18,500 · OtherBIDWELL RIVERS…DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $7,500 · OtherDES MOINES PUB…BRICKER PRICE BLOCK RESTORATION CORPORATION: $15,000 · OtherBRICKER PRICE …CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $8,983 · OtherCHRYSALIS FOUN…CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT: $34,400 · Crime & LegalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,346 · HealthFREE CLINICS OF IOWA INC: $5,000 · HealthWESLEYLIFE: $3,000 · HealthGENESIS INC: $8,023 · Youth DevelopmentSTARTS RIGHT HERE: $7,994 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$185,500Food & Nutrition$183,220Human Services$56,106Other$74,983Crime & Legal$34,400Health$22,346Youth Development$16,017

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKICK IT FORWARD: $155,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $90,420 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $87,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT: $34,400 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCAN PLAY: $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBIDWELL RIVERSIDE CENTER: $18,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJOPPA: $15,106 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBRICKER PRICE BLOCK RESTORATION CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,346 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $8,983 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGENESIS INC: $8,023 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSTARTS RIGHT HERE: $7,994 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC: $5,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREE CLINICS OF IOWA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWESLEYLIFE: $3,000 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.

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …United Way of Central…The West Bancorporati…Delta Dental of Iowa …Pella Rolscreen Found…Chrysalis FoundationVariety - the Childre…Lsb FoundationMeredith Corporation …Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…Golf Charitable Found…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA38.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Iowa Clinic Healthcare Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Iowa Clinic Healthcare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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