· Public charity
United Way of Johnson & Washington Count
The mission of UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNTies, inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT’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 31 grants below total $1,171,944 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,262,659 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,715 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $799k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL & DENTAL CLINIC | $136,770 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY | $128,769 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM (DVIP) | $111,071 |
| COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK | $108,319 |
| SHELTER HOUSE | $106,682 |
| UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH | $80,728 |
| TABLE TO TABLE | $64,391 |
| HEALTHY KIDS SCHOOL-BASED CLINICS | $62,021 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY | $44,884 |
| NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY PANTRY | $32,338 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $28,259 |
| AGING SERVICESPATHWAYS ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER | $26,834 |
| 4CS COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE | $24,293 |
| THE ARC OF SOUTHEAST IOWA | $22,534 |
| CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $20,319 |
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, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +27%
- ICIOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +131%
- CCCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +283%
Funded once
- HIHANDICARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +31%
- FOFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +32%
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.
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…
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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.
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.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
Relentlessly advocating for providers to build healthy communities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Free Lunch Program. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 38 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE 4-C S COMMITTEE OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds ABBE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PRELUDE BEHAVIORAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSING FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FREE LUNCH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HANDICARE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
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: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Hodge Family Foundation · Gary Wicklund Family Foundation · Rpc Inc 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 United Way of Johnson & Washington Count 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.