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The McIntyre Foundation at a glance

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The McIntyre Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$794k
Granted FY2026still arriving
51
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.5MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$514kHealth$464kHousing & Shelter$357kReligion$167kOther$0
02FY2026 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k19 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $446k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $259k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in United Fire And Casualty.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA$135,000
FOUR OAKS$74,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION$50,250
TANAGER PLACE$33,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC$26,000
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER$21,000
MATHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB$21,000
CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$21,000
WAYPOINT$21,000
THE KIRKWOOD FOUNDATION$19,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWA$16,500
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$16,500
COE COLLEGE$16,500
CORNELL COLLEGE$16,500
CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$16,500
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 (FY17–26, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $20k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $20k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $10k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $10k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $7k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $5k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $4k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $4k → 11%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $3k → 11%WAYPOINT: $24k → 9%WAYPOINT: $21k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $15k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $15k → 9%WAYPOINT: $12k → 9%WAYPOINT: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $8k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $7k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $6k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $5k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $5k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $105k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $100k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $80k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $74k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $57k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $46k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $41k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $40k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $37k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $33k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 60 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
5

Total granted

$8.1M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+1155%

Still filing today

63%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • FO
    FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    10× · 2017–2026 · $612k · revenue +32%
  • TP
    TANAGER PLACE
    10× · 2017–2026 · $316k · revenue +68%
  • CV
    CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    10× · 2017–2026 · $211k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS-HARD WON NOT
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • VC
    VARIETY CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • PM
    PROSPECT MEADOWS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue ×13
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
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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3
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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4
State University of Iowa Foundation

The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…

Education
5
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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6
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

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7
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.

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8
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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9
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
10
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation

The greater cedar rapids community foundation (the community foundation) partners with donors, funders, and other community collaborators to achieve high-impact philanthropy, supports nonprofit organizations that address our community's…

Philanthropy
11
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
12
The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of East Central Iowa; the most unlike its peers is Coe College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 65 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
32/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $621,796 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $210,500 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYKIRKWOOD FOUNDATION: $195,900 · OtherKIRKWOOD FOUNDATIONCEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH CENTER: $189,200 · OtherWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $188,500 · OtherMATHEW 25 MINISTRY HUB: $187,500 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWA: $167,800 · OtherIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $165,300 · OtherCEDAR RAPIDS HISTORY CENTER: $154,000 · OtherNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM: $144,000 · OtherYMCA OF THE CEDAR RAPIDS METRO AREA: $134,000 · OtherFOUR OAKS - TOTAL CHILD PROGRAM: $125,000 · Other+26 more: $1,095,950 · Other+26 moreUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,109,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EA…FRIENDS OF THE LINN COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $45,350 · Philanthropy+1 more: $28,700 · PhilanthropyFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $611,800 · Human ServicesFOUR OAKS FAMI…WAYPOINT SERVICES: $186,500 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVI…YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $90,600 · Human ServicesYOUNG PARENTS …CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $87,000 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOU…FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $67,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES HELPI…+1 more: $23,700 · Human ServicesCOE COLLEGE: $162,800 · EducationCOE COLLEG…CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $162,800 · EducationCEDAR RAPI…CORNELL COLLEGE: $162,800 · EducationCORNELL CO…MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $162,800 · EducationMOUND FARM…THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $100,600 · EducationTHE ARC OF…CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $172,800 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPI…BRUCEMORE INC: $159,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCEMORE …ORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $134,000 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA …CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE: $95,600 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPI…IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $50,350 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLI…MARION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $42,500 · Arts & CultureMARION HIS…CSPS HALL INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCSPS HALL …RED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC: $33,700 · Arts & CultureTANAGER PLACE: $315,600 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $205,500 · HealthINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $166,700 · EnvironmentTREES FOREVER INC: $84,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $33,700 · Environment
Other$3,579,446Philanthropy$1,183,850Human Services$1,066,600Education$751,800Arts & Culture$727,950Health$521,100Environment$284,400

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,109,800 over 10y, 1.8% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $611,800 over 10y, 0.3% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $315,600 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $210,500 over 10y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $205,500 over 10y, 1.6% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $188,500 over 10y, 1.8% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $186,500 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $172,800 over 10y, 3.1% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $166,700 over 10y, 2.0% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $165,300 over 10y, 1.1% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $162,800 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $162,800 over 10y, 5.5% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $162,800 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $162,800 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC: $159,000 over 10y, 2.0% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $134,000 over 10y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $100,600 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $100,600 over 10y, 1.1% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE: $95,600 over 10y, 4.4% of budgetYOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $90,600 over 10y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $87,000 over 10y, 0.3% of budgetTREES FOREVER INC: $84,000 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND: $79,150 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 10y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $67,000 over 10y, 7.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $62,000 over 10y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST LINN COMMUNITY CENTER CORP: $57,000 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $50,350 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PBS FOUNDATION: $47,850 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LINN COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $45,350 over 10y, 38% of budgetMARION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $42,500 over 5y, 33% of budgetCSPS HALL INC: $40,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC: $33,700 over 10y, 3.2% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $33,700 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLES IN MOTION THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $30,700 over 10y, 3.0% of budgetMARION PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $28,700 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDMAKER RESILIENCE INSTITUTE INC: $7,900 over 2y, 2.8% 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 UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS 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 …United Fire Group Fou…The Hall-Perrine Foun…GreenState Credit Uni…Carleen and Eugene Gr…The Kenneth K Kinsey …John P & Lawrence J G…The Slappey Family Fo…United Way of East Ce…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Rohde Family Charitab…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI63.5× affinity31 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 · United Fire Group Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Slappey Family Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The McIntyre Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McIntyre 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 65 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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