· Public charity
Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way
Raise and distribute funds to tax exempt organizations that provide human services for the betterment of the residents of northeast iowa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $110,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $226,850 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,850 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 $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATHWAYS BEHAVORIAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $24,000 |
| NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION | $12,000 |
| NORTHSTAR COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,500 |
| ALL IN MENTORING | $8,500 |
| TOGETHER FOR YOUTH | $8,000 |
| LARRABEE CENTER | $8,000 |
| RIVERVIEW CENTER | $8,000 |
| FREINDS OF THE FAMILY | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PBPATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +31%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $146k · revenue +4%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +16%
Funded once
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.
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…
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Guiding INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES towards a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
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.
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.
To improve health and wellbeing by providing healthcare services to people in their homes and throughout our community.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is All in Mentoring. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 PATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
- Who funds ALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LARRABEE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL IN MENTORING ↗
- Who funds Riverview Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Cedar Valley United Way · The Accel Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Lsb Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States
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 Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way 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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