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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$496kEducation$119kHealth$99kYouth Development$93kCrime & Legal$61kRecreation & Sports$25kHousing & Shelter$23k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$735k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Mahaska County YMCA: $53k → 10%Family Crisis Center: $20k → 16%Mahaska County YMCA: $48k → 10%Family Crisis Center: $19k → 16%Family Crisis Center: $16k → 16%Love INC of Mahaska County: $41k → 10%Love INC of Mahaska County: $40k → 10%Mahaska County YMCA: $38k → 10%Crisis Intervention Services: $28k → 10%Crisis Intervention Services: $27k → 10%Crisis Intervention Services: $24k → 10%Crisis Intervention Services: $24k → 10%Mahaska County YMCA: $22k → 10%Crisis Intervention Services: $21k → 10%Family Crisis Center: $18k → 10%Mahaska County YMCA: $17k → 10%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$865k · 11 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -4% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

-4%
-5%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • LI
    LOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $81k · revenue +427% · 31% of their budget
  • IT
    Imagine the Possibilities
    5× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +67%
  • IL
    Iowa Legal Aid
    5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAHASKA FUTURE VIEW
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -5%
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
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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2
Niad Center for Human Development Inc

The mission of crisis intervention service (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 in our…

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3
Family Crisis Centers Inc

Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.

Human Services
4
Iowa Outlaws Inc
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5
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
6
Mahaska County Habitat for Humanity

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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7
Iowa Community Capital

To strengthen the social and economic well being of individuals and communities through financial services. iowa community capital provides loans to low-and moderate-income individuals in iowa.

Community Improvement
8
Iowa Center Loan Fund

The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…

Community Improvement
9
Iowa West Foundation
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10
Missoula Area Agency On Aging Inc

Missoula aging services promotes the independence, dignity, and health of older adults and those that care for them through advocacy, education, services, and volunteer opportunities.

Human Services
11
Muscatine Center for Social Action

Mcsa provides housing, basic health care, educational and vocational support services for those in need in muscatine county while working to reduce these needs through long-term social change in the community.

Community Improvement
12
Disability Rights Iowa

To advance through all resources the human and legal rights of individuals with disabilities. disability rights iowa provides free legal and non-legal advocacy assistance to persons with mental illness, disabilities and certain social…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa 4-H Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Crisis Center & Women's Shelter Inc. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAHASKA COUNTY YMCA: $178,116 · Human ServicesMAHASKA COUNTY YMCACRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $124,698 · Human ServicesCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INCLOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTY: $81,174 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTYCRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $73,200 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INCOSKALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $118,500 · OtherOSKALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDImagine the Possibilities: $76,802 · OtherImagine the PossibilitiesIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION: $67,686 · OtherIOWA 4-H FOUNDATIONGRANT SENIOR CENTER: $39,052 · OtherGRANT SENIOR CENTERFRIENDS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS DEVELOPMENT FUND INCMahaska County Homelessness Coalition: $22,500 · OtherMahaska County Homelessness CoalitionIowa Legal Aid: $61,120 · Crime & LegalMAHASKA FUTURE VIEW: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMAHASKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,826 · Health
Human Services$457,188Other$349,540Crime & Legal$61,120Arts & Culture$25,000Health$21,826

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAHASKA COUNTY YMCA: $178,116 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $124,698 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetLOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTY: $81,174 over 2y, 31% of budgetImagine the Possibilities: $76,802 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $73,200 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION: $67,686 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $61,120 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGRANT SENIOR CENTER: $39,052 over 4y, 33% of budgetFRIENDS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMAHASKA FUTURE VIEW: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMAHASKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,826 over 2y, 5.2% 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 MAHASKA COUNTY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE INC OF MAHASKA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Imagine the Possibilities ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
  • Who funds GRANT SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MAHASKA FUTURE VIEW ↗
  • Who funds MAHASKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Pella Rolscreen Found…Community Fdn of Grea…George Daily Charitab…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pella Rolscreen FoundationIA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · George Daily Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 of Mahaska County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Mahaska County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 13 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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