· Public charity
United Way of Wapello County Inc
United way of wapello county advances the common good through sustainable, measurable improvements to our communities education, income, and health.
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 9 grants below total $226,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $247,471 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,971 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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION | $65,500 |
| CRISIS CENTER AND WOMEN'S SHELTER | $30,900 |
| YMCA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB | $24,200 |
| IOWA JAG | $20,000 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $15,000 |
| CARDINAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRIC | $10,900 |
| AL EXITO | $10,000 |
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, $436k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- AHAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +63%
- ILIowa Legal Aid7× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +34%
- IJIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OTTUMWA IOWAone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -10%
- HHOSPICEone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +24%
- SISOUTHERN IOWA MENTAL HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +102%
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
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.
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.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
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.
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…
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
CWJ is organized around the following priority issues: workers rights to proper payment and safe work, protecting/improving housing options, ensuring equal access to community services for all residents, and empowering assistance to those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Crisis Center & Women's Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds LATINAS LATINOS AL EXITO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAYS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OTTUMWA IOWA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN IOWA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA ↗
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: Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of North Central Iowa · Greenstate Foundation · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wapello 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.