How much does United Way of Muscatine Iowa give?

United Way of Muscatine Iowa reported 13 itemized grants totaling $459,000, out of $754,123 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does United Way of Muscatine Iowa fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Community Improvement (20%), Education (12%).

Who are United Way of Muscatine Iowa's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Muscatine Center for Social Action ($757k), Muscatine Community Y ($585k), Family Resources Inc ($381k).

Does United Way of Muscatine Iowa fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Muscatine Iowa?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine, HNI Charitable Foundation, Muscatine Charities Inc.

Where is United Way of Muscatine Iowa based?

United Way of Muscatine Iowa is based in IA.

United Way of Muscatine Iowa

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· Public charity

United Way of Muscatine Iowa

Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the muscatine community to advance the common good.

$754k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$108k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$1.7MCommunity Improvement$757kEducation$451kCrime & Legal$298kHealth$248kYouth Development$132kHousing & Shelter$77kEmployment$69kOther$0

02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 13 grants below total $459,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $754,123 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $295,123 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k9 grants · $190k
$50k–250k3 grants · $264k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$934k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
IOWA JAG	$20,000
SALVATION ARMY	$20,000
ISU EXTENSION	$16,000
TRINITY HEALTHCARE	$12,500
REBUILDING TOGETHER	$11,250
IMAGINATION LIBRARY	$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS QC	$5,590

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of United Way of Muscatine Iowa’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 83%.

United Way of Muscatine Iowalessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 21 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%

+44%

Still filing today

67%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEmploymentOther

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

MC
MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION
8× · 2017–2024 · $757k · revenue +10%
UH
UNITY HEALTHCARE
8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +47%
IJ
IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +275%

Funded once

GI
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +13%
TD
THE DIVERSITY SERVICE CENTER OF IOWAgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +44%

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.

Iowa Center for Children's Justice

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.

Civil Rights

Common Good Iowa

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.

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Mid-Iowa Workshops Inc

To provide employment for the disabled.

Employment

Iowa Legal Aid

To strengthen iowa's families and communities by providing free legal help that protects housing, safety, and income-and empowers people to build stable, independent lives. with 10 offices serving all 99 iowa counties, iowa legal aid helps…

Crime & Legal

United Way of Muscatine Iowa

Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the muscatine community to advance the common good.

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Iowa Association of Community Action Directors

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.

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Linn County Advocate Inc

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.

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Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition

Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal

Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

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.

Human Services

Southwest Iowa Families Inc

To enhance the lives of children and their families in southwest iowa by offering family counseling and support programs for families.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

10/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$1,164,217Other$1,147,340Community Improvement$756,601Crime & Legal$297,950Health$248,250Youth Development$105,500Employment$61,395Housing & Shelter$26,250

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater MuscatineIA34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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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 · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home