· Private foundation
Wapello County Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF OTTUMWA'S PARKS | $25,425 |
| OTTUMWA LITTLE LEAGUE | $24,575 |
| OTTUMWA COMM THANKSGIVING DINNER | $4,000 |
| SOUTHEAST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| OTTUMWA CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION | $1,091 |
| CARDINAL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +165% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- IJIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC4× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +275%
- AGAMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2019–2022 · $19k · revenue +551%
- AHAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $37k
- OBOTTUMWA BABE RUTH BASEBALLone grant, 2021 · $24k
- YOYMCA OF OTTUMWA IOWAone grant, 2024 · $14k
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.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
Coordinate area economic development
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
To improve member newspapers
To provide a youth achievement show.
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.
To bring about civic betterments and social improvements by advocating for public policies that further social and racial justice, affordable health care, equitable taxation, quality education, a healthy climate, and other changes…
The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.
Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration
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.
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.
The iowa women's foundation is committed to improving the lives of iowa's women and girls. we use research to uncover barriers to women's success as well as their greatest needs, and we invest our passion and resources accordingly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children and Families of Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Ecumenical Lords Cupboard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 41 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 BRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OTTUMWA CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WAPELLO COUNTY 4-H EXPOSITION INC DUFF ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT VALLEY MANOR ↗
- Who funds TENCO INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET OTTUMWA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ELDON DEPOT COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds WHATSOEVER YOU DO INC ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗
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 · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Wapello County Foundation 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.
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