· Community foundation
United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge
To provide direct support of various charitable, educational or scientific organizations which are exempt from federal income tax for projects intended to encourage growth in all aspects of the community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of UNITED WAY AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT DODGE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $913,759 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,692,005 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $778,246 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $374k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA CENTRAL COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $205,000 |
| SAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| TWIN LAKES RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $69,118 |
| FRIENDS OF WEBSTER COUNTY CONSERVAT | $40,050 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $27,500 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,500 |
| UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY | $25,000 |
| IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $23,589 |
| NEW COVENANT CHRISTIAN CHRUCH | $20,000 |
| GOWRIE FIRE BOARD AGENCY | $20,000 |
| POMEROY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $18,350 |
| LAKE CITY CAPRI THEATRE | $17,235 |
| CALHOUN CO EXPOSITION | $16,265 |
| ST EDMOND CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $16,200 |
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 (FY17–24, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- SHSAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM USA5× · 2019–2024 · $560k · revenue +176% · 47% of their budget
- THTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $407k · revenue +75%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- PSPROGRAM SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
- GDGOLDEN DAY ADULT DAYone grant, 2023 · $106k · 92% of their budget
- TLTHE LORDS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY PANTRYone grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue +11% · 44% of their budget
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.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
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…
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.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
To improve member newspapers
The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.
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…
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Shelter Care of North Central Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Okoboji Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 111 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 CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM USA ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DomesticSexual Assault Outreach Center ↗
- Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN DAY ADULT DAY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SIO SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Shelter Care of North Central Iowa Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Dodge Community School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LORDS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY CAPRI THEATER ↗
- Who funds FORT DODGE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Fort Dodge IA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WEBSTER COUNTY CONSERVATION ↗
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: The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Elderbridge Agency on Aging · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · Stark Group Charitable Foundation Inc
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 United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge 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.