Iowa · Public charity
United Way of Central Iowa
To improve lives by uniting the caring power of our community
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $12M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $54,504
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $763,711
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 117
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations United Way of Central Iowa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 110 | $12M | 1% |
| FY2024 | 117 | $13M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 113 | $14M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $14M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 98 | $16M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 92 | $14M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 79 | $14M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 82 | $13M | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Place | $8,281,259 | 9 | 5% |
| Des Moines Public Schools | $7,893,146 | 9 | n/a |
| Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa | $7,752,918 | 9 | 9% |
| Dmacc | $6,256,402 | 9 | n/a |
| Dental Connections Inc | $5,764,872 | 9 | 29% |
| Homes of Oakridge Human Services | $5,762,547 | 9 | 28% |
| Children and Families of Iowa | $5,386,523 | 9 | 4% |
| Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children | $4,597,323 | 9 | 19% |
| Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc | $3,414,816 | 9 | 1% |
| Home Opportunities Made Easy Inc | $3,360,991 | 9 | 21% |
Show all 181 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Central Iowa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 29 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 134 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines
How this is measured
About United Way of Central Iowa
- How much does United Way of Central Iowa give?
- United Way of Central Iowa reported 111 itemized grants totaling $12,379,769, out of $17,845,205 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Central Iowa fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are United Way of Central Iowa's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orchard Place ($8.3M), Des Moines Public Schools ($7.9M), Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa ($7.8M).
- Does United Way of Central Iowa fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Iowa?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Mid-Iowa Health Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Central Iowa based?
- United Way of Central Iowa is based in IA.
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