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GreenState Credit Union
GreenState Credit Union exists to create lasting value by strengthening the financial wellbeing of its members and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 128 grants below total $2,086,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,200,526 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,114,426 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 $10k67 grants · $376k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $975k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENSTATE FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $83,333 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA | $51,350 |
| SUMMER OF THE ARTS INC | $32,000 |
| IOWA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $31,500 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| West Des Moines Parks & Recreation | $30,000 |
| PARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE INC | $25,000 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Dubuque Community YMCAYWCA | $25,000 |
| Wings2Water | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INC | $25,000 |
| MORTON ARBORETUM | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON | $25,000 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL INC | $25,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +11% for the ones you funded once.
179 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 23 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- GFGREENSTATE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +57% · 100% of their budget
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT8× · 2017–2025 · $760k · revenue +109%
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $502k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ICIOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue -75%
- DDMACCone grant, 2021 · $42k
- HTHOUSING TRUST FUND OF JOHNSON COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +56%
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.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
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…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
Provide a lean, straightforward, and transparent conduit vehicle to those who wish to contribute resources for the betterment of the greater waterloo, iowa community and its citizens.
To strengthen and promote organized philanthropy in the state of iowa; to assist and educate its membership in order to promote and facilitate effective philanthropic grantmaking; and to provide a forum for the exchange of information on…
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
To deliver programs and to conduct research for the benefit of students, educators, emerging leaders and employers that expand their knowledge and enhance their individual responsibility and leadership skills.
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.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
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.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is Greenstate Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 42. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
262 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. 262 of the 314 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREENSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds IOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON & WASHINGTON COUNT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY DOWNTOWN SELF SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds REGINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITYCORALVILLE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds CONNECTCR INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY THEATRE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY BETTERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds FILMSCENE ↗
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 Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Greenstate Foundation · Lsb Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa
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 GreenState Credit Union 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.