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United Fire Group Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$911k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$210k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MEducation$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$772kHealth$619kCommunity Improvement$407kEnvironment$285kHousing & Shelter$251kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$220k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA$210,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF IOWA$50,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
FOUNDATION 2 CRISIS SERVICES$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION$25,000
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER$25,000
NEWBO CITY MARKET$25,000
EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER$25,000
TANAGER PLACE$25,000
WAYPOINT$20,000
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
ORCHESTRA IOWA$20,000
MONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 11%THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS: $5k → 5%FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $25k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $25k → 9%HERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $30k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $30k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $35k → 9%WAYPOINT: $35k → 9%WAYPOINT: $35k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $15k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $11k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%WAYPOINT: $10k → 9%WAYPOINT: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $10k → 9%WAYPOINT: $10k → 9%WAYPOINT: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
LA
MS
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 94 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
79

Total granted

$6.6M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+25%

Still filing today

43%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $399k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • IC
    IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +3%
  • EI
    EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +73%
  • OI
    ORCHESTRA IOWA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NN
    NW NEIGHBORS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • WD
    WILIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
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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2
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
3
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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4
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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5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
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.

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7
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
8
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
9
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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10
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
11
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
12
Upper Iowa University

Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of East Central Iowa; 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

71 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. 71 of the 208 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
44/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $202,000 · OtherIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONFOUR OAKS FOUNDATION: $170,000 · OtherWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $150,000 · OtherNORTHERN IOWA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: $130,000 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $120,000 · Other+151 more: $2,634,810 · Other+151 moreUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,650,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL …MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $70,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropyORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $195,000 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA …BRUCEMORE INC: $129,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCEMORE …CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPI…CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $82,500 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPI…NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL C…CONNECTCR INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTCR …LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER: $200,000 · HealthTANAGER PLACE: $170,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $80,000 · Health+2 more: $22,500 · HealthMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $106,200 · EducationCOE COLLEGE: $95,750 · EducationTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $80,000 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $35,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+8 more: $26,600 · EducationWAYPOINT SERVICES: $165,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $85,500 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $23,500 · Human ServicesINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $120,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOREVER INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Environment
Other$3,406,810Philanthropy$1,765,000Arts & Culture$669,000Health$472,500Education$468,550Human Services$409,000Environment$195,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $1,650,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $202,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetEASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER: $200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC: $195,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $170,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $165,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC: $129,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $120,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $106,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $95,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $90,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE: $90,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetYOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $85,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: $82,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNeighborhood Finance Corporation: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT MEADOWS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCONNECTCR INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMATTHEW 25: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTREES FOREVER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC: $17,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLDMAKER RESILIENCE INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEAL M DORSCH INFORMATION & HELPS MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIGHT WITH AUSTIN FLASH SCHROEDER FOUNDA TION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN IOWA HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
  • Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Finance Corporation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CZECH & SLOVAK MUSEUM & LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT MEADOWS INC ↗

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…Greater Cedar Rapids …The Hall-Perrine Foun…GreenState Credit Uni…The McIntyre Foundati…Carleen and Eugene Gr…Mercy Medical CenterJohn P & Lawrence J G…The Linge FoundationRohde Family Charitab…Lavern T Busse & Audr…The Kenneth K Kinsey …
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI75.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · The McIntyre Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Linge Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Fire Group Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to United Fire Group 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 208 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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