· Public charity
United Way of Muscatine Iowa
Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the muscatine community to advance the common good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $459,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $754,123 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $295,123 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION | $108,315 |
| MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y | $94,000 |
| CROSSROADS INC | $61,395 |
| FLICKLINGER LEARNING CENTER | $45,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCES | $29,950 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| IOWA JAG | $20,000 |
| ISU EXTENSION | $16,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTHCARE | $12,500 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $11,250 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS QC | $5,590 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of United Way of Muscatine Iowa’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- MCMUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION8× · 2017–2024 · $757k · revenue +10%
- UHUNITY HEALTHCARE8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +47%
- IJIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLANDone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +13%
- TDTHE DIVERSITY SERVICE CENTER OF IOWAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +44%
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
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.
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…
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
To provide employment for the disabled.
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To assist in the provision of a better life for iowa's low-income residents, through assistance to the community action organization located within the state.
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…
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Muscatine Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Flickinger Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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 MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER MUSCATINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE DIVERSITY SERVICE CENTER OF 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 Greater Muscatine · HNI Charitable Foundation · Muscatine Charities Inc · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · United Way Quad Cities · Scott County Regional Authority · KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · New Hope Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jensen Private Foundation Inc
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 Muscatine Iowa 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.