· Private foundation
The Ralph & Sylvia G Green Charita Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| PRIMARY HEALTH CARE | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF DES MOINES | $7,500 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| DENTAL CONNECTIONS | $7,500 |
| NAMIIOWA | $5,000 |
| POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,500 |
| CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF DES MOIN | $2,500 |
| SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE | $500 |
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 (FY17–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
DRAKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +20%- DMDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +192%
- PCPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +25%
Funded once
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +1%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +39%- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
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.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
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.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
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…
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.
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…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Primary Health Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS-IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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: EMC Insurance Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · 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 Ralph & Sylvia G Green Charita 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.