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Wapello County Foundation at a glance

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Wapello County Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$124kArts & Culture$123kPhilanthropy$112kRecreation & Sports$98kFood & Nutrition$40kEmployment$25kCommunity Improvement$19kHuman Services$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOC: $12k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOC: $4k → 16%CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA: $4k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 16 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +165% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
24

Total granted

$431k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+165%
-8%

Still filing today

44%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • IJ
    IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +275%
  • AG
    AMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2019–2022 · $19k · revenue +551%
  • AH
    AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
  • OB
    OTTUMWA BABE RUTH BASEBALL
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • YO
    YMCA OF OTTUMWA IOWA
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
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
Western Iowa Development Assoc

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

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2
Washington Economic Development Group

Coordinate area economic development

Community Improvement
3
Community Action of Eastern Iowa

Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.

Community Improvement
4
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

—
5
Iowa County Fair Incorporated

To provide a youth achievement show.

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6
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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7
Alliance for a Better Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
8
Agribusiness Association of Iowa

The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.

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9
Iowa Rural Development Council

Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration

Community Improvement
10
Iowa Association of Community Action Directors

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.

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11
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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12
Iowa Women's Foundation

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children and Families of Iowa; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $105,121 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCARDINAL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $60,000 · OtherCARDINAL COMMUNITY SCHOOLSSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $47,262 · OtherSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $37,467 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOTTUMWA LITTLE LEAGUE: $25,677 · OtherFRIENDS OF OTTUMWA'S PARKS: $25,425 · OtherOTTUMWA BABE RUTH BASEBALL: $23,500 · OtherOTTUMWA COMM THANKSGIVING DINNER: $20,000 · Other+22 more: $144,321 · Other+22 moreBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $50,421 · Arts & CultureBRIDGE VIEW C…AMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS: $19,164 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN GOTH…ELDON DEPOT COMMITTEE INC: $3,951 · Arts & CultureELDON DEPOT C…IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIO Girls Inc: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $16,877 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $4,000 · Human ServicesWAPELLO COUNTY 4-H EXPOSITION INC DUFF: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $4,345 · Food & NutritionWHATSOEVER YOU DO INC: $3,274 · Housing & ShelterIOWA COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $2,000 · Education
Other$488,773Arts & Culture$73,536Youth Development$28,000Human Services$20,877Recreation & Sports$10,000Food & Nutrition$4,345Housing & Shelter$3,274Education$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIDGE VIEW CENTER INC: $50,421 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN GOTHIC PERFORMING ARTS: $19,164 over 2y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $16,877 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOTTUMWA CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetWAPELLO COUNTY 4-H EXPOSITION INC DUFF: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPLEASANT VALLEY MANOR: $9,021 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTENCO INDUSTRIES INC: $8,864 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN STREET OTTUMWA: $4,416 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $4,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDON DEPOT COMMITTEE INC: $3,951 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD: $3,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWHATSOEVER YOU DO INC: $3,274 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIO Girls Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Ottumwa Regional Lega…Community Fdn of Grea…Variety - the Childre…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation IncIA34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wapello County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wapello County Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wapello County Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wapello County Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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-PF 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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