· Public charity
United Way of Story County Inc
United way of story county unites people, ideas, and resources to transform lives in story county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $1,160,426 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,362,666 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $202,240 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $760k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES | $205,297 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $87,506 |
| HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES | $86,996 |
| ASSAULT CARE CENTER | $79,551 |
| STORY TIME CHILDCARE CENTER | $73,040 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $66,218 |
| PRIMARY HEALTH CARE | $55,136 |
| ACPC | $54,744 |
| MGMC HOME HEALTH SERVICES | $51,192 |
| RAISING READERS IN STORY COUNTY | $46,059 |
| THE ARC OF STORY COUNTY | $42,350 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA | $40,508 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL | $37,460 |
| CENTRAL IOWA RSVP | $35,550 |
| UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY CHILDCARE | $29,982 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +145%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $786k · revenue +515%
- ACAMES COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $625k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TAThe Ames Foundationone grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue -51%
- CICENTRAL IOWA RSVPone grant, 2017 · $30k
- COCITY OF COLLINSone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
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.
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.
Child day care center
Child care services
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
Nscs empowers each person to realize potential, pursue dreams and enjoy life. services provided are: supported community living, day habilitation, adult day care, respite, and/or cdac services to persons with disabilities.
Provide child care to community
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.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of all by empowering communities, organizations, and people to take informed actions to prevent and mitigate the lifelong effects of childhood adversity.
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Heart of Iowa and the most unlike its peers is The Ames Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 48 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 YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND SENIOR SERVICES HEARTLAND OF STORY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMES COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSAULT CARE CENTER EXTENDING SHELTER AN ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME ↗
- Who funds STORYTIME CHILDCARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAISING READERS IN STORY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF STORY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds STORY CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC RETIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MAINSTREAM LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE COMMUNITY OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds University Community Childcare Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF STORY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ARK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds The Ames Foundation ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOARD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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 Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Hammond Family Foundation · Underwood Family Foundation · Story County Housing Trust · Marshalltown Area United Way · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · United Way of Central Iowa · Burke Family Foundation · Aging Resources of Central Iowa · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines
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 Story County Inc 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.