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Underwood Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
- $250k+1 grant · $391k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $390,750 |
| ASCENTION LUTHERN CHURCH | $56,450 |
| YSS | $25,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $16,000 |
| AMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| CALVARY E FREE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| THE BRIDGE HOME | $15,000 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIV FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| OBRIA MEDICAL CLINIC | $11,000 |
| KIDS ACCROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $10,000 |
| WHATCOM LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $10,000 |
| WALKER AREA FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +1%- ACAMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +98%
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP8× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TAThe Ames Foundationone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -31%
- SCSTORY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORSone grant, 2017 · $75k
- SASHIFT ATL INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -62%
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.
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…
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…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The purpose of the Corporation is to service the evolving needs of nonpublic school start-ups, foster the sustainability and growth of existing schools, and to provide support, education, and collaboration opportunities to Christian…
To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of 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.
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.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith and the most unlike its peers is Luvaga Foundation. 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 32 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 119 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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Ames Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds Luvaga Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Walker Area Community Center ↗
- Who funds WALKER AREA FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CHOICE OF IOWA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHIFT ATL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
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: Becker Family Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Burke Family Foundation · United Way of Story County Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · South Story Bank Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Servant Foundation · 3 Sister Non-Profit Inc 3 Sisters Non-Profit · Athene Charitable 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Underwood Family 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.
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