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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 84 grants below total $1,642,429, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,823,654 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,181,225 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 $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
OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$56,580
URBAN DREAMS$56,580
BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$55,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND$50,000
FOCUSS INC$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

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, $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. Its 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%United Action for Youth: $22k → 15%YSS: $250k → 17%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%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $100k → 17%YSS-MASON CITY: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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.

1
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
2
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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3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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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7
Southwest Iowa Families Inc

To enhance the lives of children and their families in southwest iowa by offering family counseling and support programs for families.

Health
8
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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9
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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10
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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11
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
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families; 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.
04the grantee network

161 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. 161 of the 177 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/161
Grantees still filing
96/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & SportsKellans Kingdom: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsDIAMONDS AND FIELDS: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSPECT MEADOWS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFIVE FIRES FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 177 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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