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UNITED WAY OF MAHASKA COUNTY
United Way of Mahaska County empowers our communities by promoting education, encouraging healthy living, and strengthening financial stability.
$190k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$53k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$457kCrime & Legal$61kArts & Culture$25kHealth$22kOther$350k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
basicreading
2021
basicsurvivorsdomestic violencereading
2022
survivorsdomestic violencereading
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$735k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Mahaska County YMCA$53,240
- Crisis Intervention Services$28,050
- Oskaloosa Education Foundation$25,500
- Friends of Mahaska County Consercation$25,000
- Family Crisis Center$18,000
- 4-H Foundation$15,000
- Imagine the Possibilities$14,150
- Iowa Legal Aid$12,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 14%. 12% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$865k · 11 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
1
Total granted
$865k
$25k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+34%
-31%
Still filing today
73%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther
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
- MCMahaska County YMCA5× · 2020–2024 · $178k · revenue +37%
- LILove INC of Mahaska County2× · 2020–2021 · $81k · revenue +574% · 31% of their budget
- ITImagine the Possibilities5× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MFMahaska FutureViewone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center
Guiding INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES towards a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Health
2
Mahaska County Historical Society
To maintain a museum to preserve and exhibit items which relate to the founding, growth or development of mahaska county and which are of educational or historical value; to enkindle and keep alive an active interest in local and state…
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3
Mahaska County Habitat for Humanity Inc
A nonprofit ecumenical christian housing ministry dedicated to eleminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
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4
Marshall County Healthcare Center
To provide healthcare services.
Health
5
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
Health
6
Niad Center for Human Development
The mission of cis is to provide persons affected by domestic violence, sexual assault and homicide with professional, confidential, 24-hour services including safety and support and to prevent violence.
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7
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Community Improvement
8
Prairie Harvest Mental Health
We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.
Human Services
9
United Way of North Central Iowa
Connect and strengthen community resources to inspire change in the lives of all north Iowans.
Philanthropy
10
Independent Insurance Agents of
Membership association for independent insurance agents doing business in the state of iowa
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11
Midwest Dairy Association
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
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12
Macomb County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers
IVC provides a variety of support to older and disabled adults who are struggling to remain safe and independent in their own homes, through a dedicated team of vetted, trained and supported volunteers.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mahaska Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mahaska Future View. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$457,188Other$349,540Crime & Legal$61,120Arts & Culture$25,000Health$21,826
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 Mahaska County YMCA ↗
- Who funds Crisis Intervention Services ↗
- Who funds Love INC of Mahaska County ↗
- Who funds Imagine the Possibilities ↗
- Who funds Family Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds Mahaska County 4-H Foundation ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds Mahaska County Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mahaska County Consercation ↗
- Who funds Mahaska FutureView ↗
- Who funds Mahaska Hospital Foundation ↗
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.
Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesIA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · George Daily Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF MAHASKA COUNTY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Mahaska County Agency on Aging.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 800319681 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Mahaska County Agency on Aging, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Way of Mahaska County?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Mahaska County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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