· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Crisis Intervention | $38,000 |
| Community Kitchen | $37,500 |
| NICAO - Outreach | $25,000 |
| Francis LauerYth Social Serv | $24,000 |
| NIACOG Housing Trust Fund Inc | $20,000 |
| 43 North Iowa | $16,000 |
| IJAG | $13,000 |
| Charlie Brown Comm Daycare | $10,500 |
| Elderbridge | $10,000 |
| Cedar Valley Friends of the F | $10,000 |
| Mason City Youth Task | $8,000 |
| NI Child Abuse Prevention Cou | $7,500 |
| Catholic Charities | $7,400 |
| FOOD BANK OF IAHAWK HARVEST | $7,000 |
| Mason City Family YMCA | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $194k · revenue +387%
- NINorth Iowa Community Action Organization8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +23%
- NINORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +39%
- NINORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +6%
- TTTLC The Learning Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +46%
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.
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.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
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…
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.
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
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.
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.
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
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 empower individuals with disabilities to control their lives.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds North Iowa Community Action Organization ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MASON CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB ↗
- Who funds NIACOG HOUSING TRUST FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLIE BROWN COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of North Central Iowa ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds OSAGE COMMUNITY DAYCARE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TLC The Learning Center ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SET ME FREE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of North Central Iowa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of North Central Iowa. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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