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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MArts & Culture$715kHealth$590kHuman Services$579kReligion$570kPublic Safety & Disaster$252kCommunity Improvement$208kHousing & Shelter$181kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $913,759, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,692,005 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $778,246 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $374k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
POMEROY FIRE DEPARTMENT$20,000
GOWRIE FIRE BOARD AGENCY$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF N&W IOWA: $5k → 7%YSS OF MARSHALL COUNTY: $10k → 11%SAFE HAVEN BABY BOX: $13k → 12%OPPORTUNITY LIVING: $11k → 9%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $25k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $24k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $15k → 10%OPPORTUNITY LIVING: $10k → 9%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $12k → 10%GOLDEN DAY ADULT DAY CENTER: $106k → 13%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $12k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $8k → 10%YOUTH SHELTER CARE: $50k → 13%YOUTH SHELTER CARE: $10k → 13%YOUTH SHELTER CARE: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 13%CALVARY FAMILY CENTER DAYCARE: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 13%YOUTH SHELTER CARE: $5k → 13%YOUTH SHELTER CARE: $5k → 13%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 56 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
45

Total granted

$5.1M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+3%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SH
    SAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM USA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $560k · revenue +176% · 47% of their budget
  • TH
    TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $407k · revenue +75%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROGRAM SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $1.4M
  • GD
    GOLDEN DAY ADULT DAY
    one grant, 2023 · $106k · 92% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LORDS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY PANTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue +11% · 44% of their budget
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
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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3
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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4
Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.

Housing & Shelter
5
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

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

Health
6
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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7
Iowa Legal Aid Foundation

To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.

Crime & Legal
8
Central Iowa Health System

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

Health
9
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
10
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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11
Iowa City Downtown Self Supported Municipal Improvement District

Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.

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12
Family Planning Council of Iowa

The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Shelter Care of North Central Iowa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROGRAM SERVICES: $1,423,185 · OtherPROGRAM SERVICESIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $766,054 · OtherIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $407,008 · OtherTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC PARISH: $182,495 · Other+75 more: $2,240,976 · Other+75 moreIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $188,396 · EducationIOWA STATE …UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $170,350 · EducationUNIVERSITY …STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $119,550 · EducationSTATE UNIVE…ATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC: $95,977 · EducationATHLETICS F…Fort Dodge Community School District Foundation: $80,420 · EducationFort Dodge …DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $65,500 · EducationDRAKE UNIVE…+2 more: $18,000 · EducationSAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM USA: $560,000 · Arts & CultureSAAB HERIT…LAKE CITY CAPRI THEATER: $48,895 · Arts & CultureLAKE CITY …FORT DODGE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $30,825 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $59,150 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGOLDEN DAY ADULT DAY: $105,528 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $96,000 · Human ServicesYouth Shelter Care of North Central Iowa Inc: $80,500 · Human ServicesLutheran Family Service: $27,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY LIVING: $21,150 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC: $12,703 · Human Services+3 more: $25,334 · Human ServicesDomesticSexual Assault Outreach Center: $165,950 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF IOWA: $12,000 · Civil RightsUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $155,633 · Community ImprovementFRIENDSHIP HAVEN INC: $88,633 · Housing & ShelterBEACON OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $27,804 · Housing & ShelterLOTUS COMMUNITY PROJECT INC: $15,627 · Housing & ShelterGRANDVIEW APARTMENTS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOne Vision: $5,300 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,019,718Education$738,193Arts & Culture$698,870Human Services$368,215Civil Rights$177,950Community Improvement$155,633Housing & Shelter$147,364

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 budgetIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $766,054 over 7y, 25% of budgetSAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM USA: $560,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $407,008 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $188,396 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $170,350 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDomesticSexual Assault Outreach Center: $165,950 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $155,633 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $119,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN DAY ADULT DAY: $105,528 over 1y, 92% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $96,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC: $95,977 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SIO SIOUX CITY: $94,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES: $92,801 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HAVEN INC: $88,633 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Shelter Care of North Central Iowa Inc: $80,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFort Dodge Community School District Foundation: $80,420 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetTHE LORDS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY PANTRY: $67,500 over 1y, 44% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $65,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY TO DISCOVERY: $50,225 over 4y, 30% of budgetIOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLAKE CITY CAPRI THEATER: $48,895 over 2y, 46% of budgetFORT DODGE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $43,750 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetYWCA of Fort Dodge IA: $41,050 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEBSTER COUNTY CONSERVATION: $40,050 over 1y, 18% of budgetFORT DODGE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $30,825 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBEACON OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $27,804 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLutheran Family Service: $27,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL SCHOOL PRESERVATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $24,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBlanden Charitable Foundation: $22,150 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetOPPORTUNITY LIVING: $21,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST WEBSTER AMBULANCE: $20,366 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetYOUR OWN UNITED RESOURCES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALHOUN COUNTY EXPOSITION: $16,265 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLOTUS COMMUNITY PROJECT INC: $15,627 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC: $12,703 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF IOWA: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $10,945 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOW: $10,250 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MARIAN HOME: $10,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMMUNITY MEMORIAL BUILDING: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetIOWA STATE BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCALVARY FAMILY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Catherine Vincent…Community Fdn of Grea…GreenState Credit Uni…Alliant Energy Founda…Prairie Meadows Race …Ann Smeltzer Charitab…Delta Dental of Iowa …First Interstate Banc…Elderbridge Agency on…The West Bancorporati…Lsb FoundationStark Group Charitabl…
The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable FoundationIA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    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 111 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 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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