How much does United Way of Story County Inc give?

United Way of Story County Inc reported 26 itemized grants totaling $1,160,426, out of $1,362,666 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Story County Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (61%), Health (13%), Youth Development (10%).

Who are United Way of Story County Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth and Shelter Services Inc ($1.9M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Story County Inc ($786k), Heartland Senior Services Heartland of Story County ($691k).

Does United Way of Story County Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is United Way of Story County Inc based?

United Way of Story County Inc is based in IA.

United Way of Story County Inc

United Way of Story County Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Story County Inc

United way of story county unites people, ideas, and resources to transform lives in story county.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$205k

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 2025.

Human Services$7.2MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.2MHousing & Shelter$731kCommunity Improvement$484kCrime & Legal$282kFood & Nutrition$228kPublic Safety & Disaster$144kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 26 grants below total $1,160,426, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,362,666 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $202,240 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 · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $17k
$10k–50k15 grants · $384k
$50k–250k9 grants · $760k

$37,460

Median grant

States reached

$4.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

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 (FY17–25, $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 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.

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.

$12M · 34 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

-39%

Still filing today

79%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

YA
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +145%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $786k · revenue +515%
AC
AMES COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $625k · revenue +29%

Funded once

TA
The Ames Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue -51%
CI
CENTRAL IOWA RSVP
one grant, 2017 · $30k
CO
CITY OF COLLINS
one grant, 2017 · $18k

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 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

Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center

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.

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Story City Greater Community Congress Story City Greater Chamber Connection

Education and economic development

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Community Childcare of Manchester Iowa

Child care services

Education

Noah's Ark Daycare Inc

Provide child care to community

Human Services

North Star Community Services Inc

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.

Employment

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

Grand View Child Development Center Inc

Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities

Human Services

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…

Philanthropy

Iowa Aces 360

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.

Health

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Heart of Iowa; the most unlike its peers is One Heart Equestrian Therapy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 48 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)

33/33

Grantees still filing

21/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$5,374,110Other$3,166,086Health$910,522Youth Development$903,178Housing & Shelter$731,021Community Improvement$571,130Food & Nutrition$211,404

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 Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA43.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

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