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The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc at a glance

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The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
111
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$261kHuman Services$233kEducation$202kHousing & Shelter$180kYouth Development$169kPhilanthropy$136kArts & Culture$119kReligion$92kOther$0
02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k105 grants · $267k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$946k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$10,000
THE EDDIE DAVIS COMMUNITY CENTER INC$10,000
ELLIPSIS$10,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$10,000
ANAWIM HOUSING$10,000
GREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY$8,348
REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOINES$7,500
UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNTIES$7,500
HOPE MINISTRIES$7,000
DOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$7,000
EVERYSTEP FOUNDATION$5,000
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA$5,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA$5,000
GENESIS INC$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $5k → 9%PROJECT LEGACY: $5k → 9%PROJECT LEGACY: $3k → 9%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $3k → 9%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $3k → 9%IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $3k → 15%HONORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT: $3k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $20k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $15k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $10k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $5k → 10%JOPPA: $5k → 10%JOPPA: $5k → 10%PROJECT IOWA: $3k → 10%PROJECT IOWA: $3k → 10%PROJECT IOWA: $3k → 10%JOPPA: $3k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $6k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $3k → 10%CROSS OUTREACH: $3k → 10%FAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $3k → 10%FAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $3k → 10%FAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $3k → 10%FAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $3k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $9k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $9k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $5k → 10%PROJECT IOWA: $3k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTERS: $3k → 10%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE EDDIE DAVIS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 10%THE EDDIE DAVIS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8k → 10%THE EDDIE DAVIS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8k → 10%THE EDDIE DAVIS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 10%THE EDDIE DAVIS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 122 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

122 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122
70

Total granted

$1.4M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DM
    DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +66%
  • HM
    HOPE MINISTRIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +7%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CC
    CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue +88%
  • UH
    UNITYPOINT HEALTH JOHN STODDARD CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +15%
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
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
3
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…

—
4
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

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

Community Improvement
5
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

—
6
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
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
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.

—
9
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.

—
10
Iowa Sister States

Iowa sister states is dedicated to connecting iowans with the world community. our mission is to develop and implement international partnerships and programs that promote the cultural, economic, and other interests of iowa and its friends…

International
11
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
12
Waterloo Community Foundation

Provide a lean, straightforward, and transparent conduit vehicle to those who wish to contribute resources for the betterment of the greater waterloo, iowa community and its citizens.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Heart of Iowa; the most unlike its peers is Guardian Scholars Foundation. 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

140 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. 140 of the 220 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/140
Grantees still filing
90/140
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $55,000 · OtherDOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND: $36,000 · OtherGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Other+120 more: $725,073 · Other+120 moreDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $73,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELI…HOPE MINISTRIES: $48,000 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTRIESEddie Davis Community Center Inc: $33,000 · Human ServicesEddie Davis Communit…WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $27,042 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY SER…CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $22,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILIE…YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $12,500 · Human ServicesJOPPA: $12,500 · Human Services+16 more: $78,300 · Human Services+16 moreREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI: $40,000 · PhilanthropyREBUILDING …UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT: $33,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …GREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INC: $32,550 · PhilanthropyGREATER MAN…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA: $17,959 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY: $12,170 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $9,675 · PhilanthropyCHRYSALIS F…COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $6,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $26,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreEVERYBODY WINS - IOWA: $31,000 · EducationFuture Net Incorporated: $17,500 · EducationIOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSINGLE PARENT PROVISION: $11,500 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationREGINA FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationKIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $16,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARTS RIGHT HERE: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentGENESIS INC: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER: $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWEST DES MOINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET DES MOINES: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePARTY ON THE HILL INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $2,750 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $13,000 · Arts & CultureCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $27,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $14,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Our Communities Partners: $12,000 · Food & NutritionURBANDALE FOOD PANTRY: $8,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC: $5,400 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $3,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$851,073Human Services$306,342Philanthropy$177,854Education$115,500Youth Development$93,500Arts & Culture$77,250Food & Nutrition$70,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $73,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES: $48,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DES MOI: $40,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND: $36,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT: $33,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INC: $32,550 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS - IOWA: $31,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $28,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $27,042 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $27,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $27,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTRANDS OF STRENGTH INC: $25,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBY DEGREES FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA: $17,959 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFuture Net Incorporated: $17,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE A VISION FOR SHARED DOWNTOWN MINISTRY: $15,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST DES MOINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPrevent Blindness Iowa: $12,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJOPPA: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION: $12,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY: $12,170 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding Our Communities Partners: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBALLET DES MOINES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSINGLE PARENT PROVISION: $11,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MN: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT IOWA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 4y, 2.6% 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.

Prairie Meadows Race …Community Fdn of Grea…EMC Insurance Foundat…The Merchants Bonding…GreenState Credit Uni…United Way of Central…Lsb FoundationVariety - the Childre…Meredith Corporation …Ita Group FoundationWilliam C Knapp Chari…Golf Charitable Found…
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA125.4× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · United Way of Central Iowa · Lsb Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · 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 West Bancorporation Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc 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 220 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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