· Private foundation
The Principal Financial Group Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of The Principal Financial Group Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 118 grants below total $12,800,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,006,802 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,206,602 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $637k
- $50k–250k61 grants · $6.6M
- $250k+12 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $1,393,683 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $591,750 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $566,751 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $454,519 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $420,815 |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $400,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $350,031 |
| Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity | $300,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $270,886 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $268,785 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $266,087 |
| National Institute of Minority Economic | $250,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $240,530 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $218,246 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $211,456 |
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Build From Within Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Mint Museum of Art Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 151 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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Freefrom ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILD FROM WITHIN ALLIANCE ↗
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: Wells Fargo Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Target Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation
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.