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TrueNorth Legacy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$590k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

85% of TrueNorth Legacy Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year TrueNorth Legacy Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $590k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’23
18
’24
17
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.2MHuman Services$460kEducation$308kArts & Culture$295kHealth$139kCommunity Improvement$105kAnimals$85kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC$100,000
COE COLLEGE$100,000
NEWBO CITY MARKET$75,000
GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
GROW CENTERVILLE$25,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION$25,000
MARION PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC$25,000
TANAGER PLACE$25,000
EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR$20,000
INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER$20,000
NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY$20,000
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH$15,000
STAR 1 SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION$10,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$10,000
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 (FY23–25, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $100k → 17%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $25k → 3%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%DISCOVERY LIVING INC: $24k → 9%THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $50k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CEDAR RAPI: $25k → 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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$325k · 3 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$325k
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • CC
    COE COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • TP
    TANAGER PLACE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue -2%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue -17%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +181%
  • CR
    CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +854%
  • F2
    FOUNDATION 2 INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -7%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
3
Mercy Medical Center - Centerville

We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…

Health
4
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
5
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.

Health
6
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
7
Central Community Hospital

Central community hospital's mission is to serve with fidelity to the gospel as a compassionate, healing ministry of jesus christ to transform the health of our communities.

Health
8
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
9
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
10
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.

—
11
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.

—
12
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Monarch Research Project. 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

36 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. 36 of the 41 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
12/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,149,047 · PhilanthropyGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $75,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CEDAR RAPIDS METROPOLITAN AREA: $25,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $25,000 · Human ServicesDISCOVERY LIVING INC: $24,000 · Human Services+3 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOE COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTANAGER PLACE: $75,000 · HealthST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFOUNDATION 2 INC: $75,000 · OtherFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherREDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $50,000 · OtherTHE MARION PARKS & RECREATION: $25,000 · OtherPROSPECT MEADOWS INC: $14,000 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $75,000 · OtherSTATE CENTER FIRE AND EMS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $48,000 · OtherNEWBO CITY MARKET: $75,000 · Community ImprovementGrow Centerville: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMoville Community Development Association Inc: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$3,159,047Human Services$324,000Arts & Culture$295,000Education$285,000Health$190,000Other$362,000Community Improvement$105,000

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 budgetGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,149,047 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET: $75,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION 2 INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MARION PARKS & RECREATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CEDAR RAPIDS METROPOLITAN AREA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE CENTER FIRE AND EMS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetDISCOVERY LIVING INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOGS FOREVER OF IOWA: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetThe Freedom Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Greater Cedar Rapids …The Hall-Perrine Foun…United Fire Group Fou…The Accel FoundationLavern T Busse & Audr…First Interstate Banc…Rohde Family Charitab…United Way of East Ce…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Hawkeye Area Communit…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI54.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 TrueNorth Legacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to TrueNorth Legacy 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 41 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home