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Veridian Credit Union

The mission of VERIDIAN CREDIT UNION is to partner with members to create successful financial futures.

$985k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$729kHuman Services$672kHousing & Shelter$229kEducation$145kFood & Nutrition$79kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kEmployment$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $752,271 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $985,368 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $233,097 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE$100,421
OPERATION THRESHOLD$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA$90,000
GROW CEDAR VALLEY$37,500
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA$37,000
CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY$32,000
HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION$25,000
GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN$25,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$20,000
PAPILLION-LA VISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$15,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS$15,000
ANAWIM HOUSING$15,000
ANAWIM HOUSING$14,500
IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$14,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS$13,500
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 (FY19–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $10k → 15%OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $6k → 10%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $25k → 12%WESLEY LIFE: $15k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 27 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
15

Total granted

$2.6M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • OT
    OPERATION THRESHOLD INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $626k · revenue +14%
  • IC
    IOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $262k · revenue +12%
  • GC
    GROW CEDAR VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $258k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IC
    IOWA COMMUNITY CAPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -49%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • IO
    INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +20%

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
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
2
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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3
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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4
Waterloo Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
5
Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

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6
West Central Community Action

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.

Human Services
7
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

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8
Iowa Center Loan Fund

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…

Community Improvement
9
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

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.

Human Services
10
Iowa Business Council

The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.

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11
Community Foundation for Western 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.

Philanthropy
12
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of East Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Ankeny Business & Industry Collaborative. 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 backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Affordable Housing Developm…College Fraternity HousingYouth Mentoring and Develop…Regional Community Developm…Iowa Industry & Business As…
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 38 years old; the field is 52. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%2%<5yr8%7%5–10yr11%13%10–20yr9%24%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr49%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%1%<5yr8%1%5–10yr11%5%10–20yr9%13%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr49%60%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
7%
1,058/16,214

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

51 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. 51 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPERATION THRESHOLD INC — $626,000 · OtherOPERATION THRESHOLD INCIOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $262,437 · OtherIOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUEGROW CEDAR VALLEY — $257,500 · OtherGROW CEDAR VALLEYUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $240,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWAIOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $132,000 · OtherIOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS FOUNDATION — $102,500 · Other+23 more — $457,800 · Other+23 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA — $647,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAS…CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY — $234,500 · PhilanthropyCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAYUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $120,200 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA+2 more — $22,500 · PhilanthropyLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP — $35,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $25,000 · Community ImprovementOelwein Event Corporation — $12,500 · Community ImprovementIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEWBO CITY MARKET — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Community ImprovementAnkeny Business & Industry Collaborative — $7,000 · Community ImprovementWAVERLY AREA DEVELOPMENT FUND — $5,500 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $80,103 · EducationPAPILLION LA VISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationCEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $74,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $14,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION — $25,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMES OF OAKRIDGE HUMAN SERVICES — $6,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $25,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $14,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,078,237Philanthropy$1,024,200Community Improvement$163,000Education$145,103Housing & Shelter$113,000Human Services$56,000Food & Nutrition$39,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA — $647,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION THRESHOLD INC — $626,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetIOWA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $262,437 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetGROW CEDAR VALLEY — $257,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $240,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY — $234,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetIOWA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $132,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $120,200 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION — $80,103 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $74,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPAPILLION LA VISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOelwein Area United Way Inc — $36,600 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetCENTRO LATINO OF IOWA — $35,750 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE IOWA — $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING INC — $29,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $28,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE — $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINSIDE OUT REENTRY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIOWA CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGROUT MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOelwein Event Corporation — $12,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA — $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MINNESOTA INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUCHANAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION — $10,300 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA GIVING CREW — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCE SOUTHWEST IOWA CORPORATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAnkeny Business & Industry Collaborative — $7,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

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.

GreenState Credit Uni…Lsb FoundationDuroe Family Foundati…Otto Schoitz Foundati…Max and Helen Guernse…Black Hawk County Gam…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Delta Dental of Iowa …Community Fdn of Grea…United Way of Central…First Interstate Banc…Alliant Energy Founda…
GreenState Credit UnionIA44.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · Lsb Foundation · Duroe Family Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · 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 Veridian 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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