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The Ralph & Sylvia G Green Charita Foundation at a glance

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The Ralph & Sylvia G Green Charita Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$116kHealth$67kHousing & Shelter$53kArts & Culture$48kFood & Nutrition$32kCrime & Legal$30kEnvironment$22kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$553k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA LEGAL AID FOUNDATION$7,500
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$7,500
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE$7,500
DENTAL CONNECTIONS$7,500
YMCA OF DES MOINES$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
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $5k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $3k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $3k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$385k · 21 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$385k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+43%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +20%
  • DM
    DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +192%
  • PC
    POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +1%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +95%
  • EC
    EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +43%
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
Iowa Medical Society

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.

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3
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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4
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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5
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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6
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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9
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
10
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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11
Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
12
Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center

To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Primary Health Care Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $65,250 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $1,000 · EducationDENTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 · HealthDENTAL CONNECTIONS …PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC: $14,500 · HealthPRIMARY HEALTH CARE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $13,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD …NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS-IOWA INC: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE O…+3 more: $3,200 · HealthYMCA OF DES MOINES: $21,700 · OtherYMCA OF DES MOINESEDMUNDSON ART FOUNDATION DBA DES MOINES ART CENTER: $15,000 · OtherEDMUNDSON ART FOUNDATION DBA DES…GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA: $4,000 · OtherCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES: $13,500 · OtherCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOIN…DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · OtherDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · OtherIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $22,200 · OtherIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $12,500 · OtherDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCI…DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $5,600 · Other+6 more: $8,700 · Other+6 moreDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $46,500 · PhilanthropyDES MOINES PU…POLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND: $38,500 · Housing & ShelterPOLK COUNTY…FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK…SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSEED SAVE…Iowa Legal Aid Foundation: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$66,250Health$66,200Other$114,700Philanthropy$46,500Housing & Shelter$38,500Food & Nutrition$32,000Crime & Legal$30,000

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 budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $65,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $46,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND: $38,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Legal Aid Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDENTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $22,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES: $13,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS-IOWA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORCHARD PLACE: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $150 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.

EMC Insurance Foundat…Community Fdn of Grea…The West Bancorporati…William C Knapp Chari…Fred Maytag Family Fo…Bookey Family Foundat…Meredith Corporation …Prairie Meadows Race …Mid-Iowa Health Found…Thomas & Linda Koehn …Gartner Family Founda…Golf Charitable Found…
EMC Insurance FoundationIA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ralph & Sylvia G Green Charita Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph & Sylvia G Green Charita Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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.

    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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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