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Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa

VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA is dedicated to improving the lives of children who are at risk, underprivileged, critically ill, or living with special needs.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$9.5MHuman Services$4.0MYouth Development$3.1MRecreation & Sports$2.9MHousing & Shelter$944kEducation$463kArts & Culture$268kFood & Nutrition$248kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 84 grants below total $1,642,429 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,823,654 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,181,225 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 $10k19 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $500k
$12,994
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION$92,965
CRITTENTON CENTER$75,000
MERCYONE DES MOINES FOUNDATION$63,985
URBAN DREAMS$56,580
OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$56,580
BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$55,000
FOCUSS INC$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND$50,000
DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA$40,871
YMCA OF NEWTON IOWA INC$40,000
MARY GREELEY FOUNDATION$38,609
CAMP HIGH HOPES$30,024
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$30,000
ORCHARD PLACE$30,000
ST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$28,524
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Bridge of Storm Lake: $40k → 10%CRITTENTON CENTER: $75k → 13%THE BRIDGE OF STORM LAKE: $19k → 10%YSS Francis Lauer: $30k → 12%Childrens Square USA: $82k → 12%American Home Finding: $37k → 16%YSS: $250k → 17%United Action for Youth: $22k → 15%YSS: $250k → 17%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $24k → 16%YSS: $250k → 17%Waypoint Services: $30k → 9%DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA: $41k → 11%Hand in Hand: $45k → 12%American Home Finding Association: $23k → 16%Youth & Shelter Services Inc: $151k → 17%American Home Finding Association: $22k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $20k → 16%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $30k → 13%YSS-MASON CITY: $100k → 17%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $100k → 17%American Home Finding Association: $40k → 16%Hillcrest Family Services: $18k → 11%Youth and Shelter Services Inc (YSS): $25k → 17%Balance Autism: $37k → 10%The Homestead: $18k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL - DMARC: $89k → 10%Des Moines Area Religious Council (DMARC): $150k → 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES - IHYC: $26k → 10%Dorothys House: $26k → 10%EveryStep -- Amanda The Panda: $25k → 10%EveryStep - Amanda The Panda: $20k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $714k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $235k → 10%ChildServe: $235k → 10%ChildServe Foundation: $202k → 10%ChildServe: $200k → 10%CHILDSERVE: $193k → 10%ChildServe Foundation: $101k → 10%ChildServe Foundation: $100k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $93k → 10%ChildServe: $50k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $57k → 10%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $57k → 10%Oakridge Neighborhood Services: $45k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $40k → 10%Orchard Place: $37k → 10%Oakridge Neighborhood Services: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 89 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

89 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
60

Total granted

$19M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $404k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • IH
    IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +38%
  • CF
    CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +577%
  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CITY OF CLIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $680k
  • MC
    MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $333k · revenue -17%
  • GO
    GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Reach for Your Potential Inc

Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
2
Common Good Iowa

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.

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3
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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4
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
5
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
6
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
7
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

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8
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
9
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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10
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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11
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
12
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Girls Rock Des Moines. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCrisis Support and Family S…Regional Arts OrganizationsCommunity Economic Developm…Youth Development Organizat…Regional Economic Developme…Disability Services Organiz…Construction Trades Apprent…Senior Residential CareConstruction Trade Associat…Emergency Assistance & Shel…Youth Amateur Sports Progra…Iowa Industry Trade Associa…Agricultural Fairs and Farm…Trade Labor Unions
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number11%3%<5yr7%10%5–10yr11%16%10–20yr9%20%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr51%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value11%0%<5yr7%2%5–10yr11%5%10–20yr9%31%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr51%22%55yr+

The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/177
the rest of the field
6%
1,039/17,700

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.

04the grantee network

161 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 161 of the 177 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/161
Grantees still filing
98/161
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $4,305,221 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATIONMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $1,272,085 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWAELLIPSIS INC — $965,885 · HealthELLIPSIS INCMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $364,461 · Health+28 more — $2,186,982 · Health+28 moreCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,123,035 · Human ServicesCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INCYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $1,204,438 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES…HOPE MINISTRIES — $250,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $239,150 · Human ServicesAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION — $187,545 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $187,180 · Human Services+30 more — $1,018,265 · Human Services+30 moreCITY OF DES MOINES — $758,115 · OtherCITY OF DES MOINESTHE CITY OF CLIVE — $679,903 · OtherTHE CITY OF CLIVEYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA — $425,000 · OtherYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES &…EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC — $232,637 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $200,500 · OtherTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $187,137 · OtherBY DEGREES FOUNDATION — $180,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $210,000 · Other+70 more — $2,313,777 · Other+70 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $386,700 · Youth DevelopmentMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $333,333 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC — $256,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES — $185,678 · Youth DevelopmentPURSUIT OF INNOVATION — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC — $122,018 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC — $65,000 · Youth Development+7 more — $156,174 · Youth DevelopmentDES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION — $126,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC — $83,000 · Recreation & SportsDIAMONDS AND FIELDS — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsKellans Kingdom — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFIVE FIRES FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSPECT MEADOWS INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSKATE DSM — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsKICK IT FORWARD — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,488 · Recreation & SportsBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $158,000 · AnimalsGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT — $73,888 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADOLESCENT AND PARENT SUPPORT IN — $69,840 · Crime & LegalFAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY — $55,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF IOWA CASA & ICFCRB — $18,000 · Crime & LegalChild Protection Response Center — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$9,094,634Human Services$5,209,613Other$5,187,069Youth Development$1,639,903Recreation & Sports$426,988Animals$308,000Crime & Legal$226,728

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $4,305,221 over 9y, 16% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,123,035 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA — $1,272,085 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $1,204,438 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetELLIPSIS INC — $965,885 over 5y, 12% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA — $425,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $386,700 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $364,461 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $333,333 over 1y, 13% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $284,863 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $277,584 over 4y, 23% of budgetCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC — $256,000 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES — $250,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL — $239,150 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC — $232,637 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $222,765 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetORCHARD PLACE — $212,524 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $210,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER — $203,738 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $200,500 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION — $187,545 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $187,180 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $187,137 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES — $185,678 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBY DEGREES FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $158,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY — $155,181 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Ames Foundation — $150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMENTOR IOWA — $140,000 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetPURSUIT OF INNOVATION — $135,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetDES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION — $126,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC — $122,018 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION — $107,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWHATSOEVER YOU DO INC — $107,341 over 2y, 23% of budgetCOVENANT FOUNDATION INC — $103,633 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $102,199 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $101,145 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA — $98,388 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetURBAN DREAMS — $96,580 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CRITTENTON CENTER — $91,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC — $83,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN HOME ASSN - CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA — $81,618 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWILLKIE HOUSE INC — $80,002 over 2y, 19% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICES OF IOWA — $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT — $73,888 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION — $70,186 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCHILD ADOLESCENT AND PARENT SUPPORT IN — $69,840 over 7y, 1.1% of budget
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 IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BY DEGREES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
  • Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Ames Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MENTOR IOWA ↗
  • Who funds PURSUIT OF INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHATSOEVER YOU DO INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗

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.

Prairie Meadows Race …Community Fdn of Grea…United Way of Central…Golf Charitable Found…Delta Dental of Iowa …The West Bancorporati…EMC Insurance Foundat…The Merchants Bonding…GreenState Credit Uni…Lsb FoundationIta Group FoundationAlliant Energy Founda…
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA119.6× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Lsb Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc

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 Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 177 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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