Iowa · Public charity
United Way of North Central Iowa
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 improve the lives of Iowans.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $240k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations United Way of North Central Iowa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $240k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $240k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $229k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $257k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $266k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $339k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $343k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $438k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niad Center for Human Development Inc | $328,443 | 8 | 3% |
| Francis Lauer Youth Services | $219,865 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $193,680 | 7 | 13% |
| North Iowa Community Action Organization | $179,850 | 8 | 0% |
| North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc | $156,673 | 8 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of Mason City Inc | $131,435 | 6 | 87% |
| Friends of Iowa Casa & Icfcrb | $125,776 | 6 | 13% |
| Niacog Housing Trust Fund Inc | $123,210 | 6 | 3% |
| Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc | $122,721 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlie Brown Community Day Care Center Inc | $122,100 | 8 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
United Way of North Central Iowa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Stratford Foundation · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W · Cedar Valley United Way · Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp
How this is measured
About United Way of North Central Iowa
- How much does United Way of North Central Iowa give?
- United Way of North Central Iowa reported 15 itemized grants totaling $239,900, out of $256,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of North Central Iowa fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are United Way of North Central Iowa's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Niad Center for Human Development Inc ($328k), Francis Lauer Youth Services ($220k), Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc ($194k).
- Does United Way of North Central Iowa fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of North Central Iowa?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrer Endowment Foundation, First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation.
- Where is United Way of North Central Iowa based?
- United Way of North Central Iowa is based in IA.
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