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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.

$227k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$200kFood & Nutrition$146kHuman Services$104kHousing & Shelter$78kEmployment$73kYouth Development$34kEducation$32kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $110,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $226,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,850 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 $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$431k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $6k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $6k → 10%LARRABEE CENTER: $9k → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $9k → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $8k → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $8k → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $7k → 7%LARRABEE CENTER: $7k → 7%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $12k → 17%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 17%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 17%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 17%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 17%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 17%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$691k · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$691k
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PB
    PATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +31%
  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $146k · revenue +4%
  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +16%

Funded once

    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
    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
    Food Bank of Iowa

    The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

    Food & Nutrition
    3
    Iowa City Hospice Inc

    To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

    Human Services
    4
    Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

    Improve communications between employers and local unions.

    —
    5
    Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center

    Guiding INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES towards a meaningful and fulfilling life.

    Health
    6
    Linn County Advocate Inc

    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.

    —
    7
    Lincoln Behavioral Services

    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…

    Health
    8
    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.

    —
    9
    Crisis Intervention Services Inc

    Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.

    Human Services
    10
    Iowa Bird Rehabilitation

    The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…

    Animals
    11
    Visiting Nurse Association of Johnson County

    To improve health and wellbeing by providing healthcare services to people in their homes and throughout our community.

    Health
    12
    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
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid; 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.
    04the grantee network

    12 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.

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

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    12/12
    Grantees still filing
    10/12
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    PATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC: $149,300 · HealthPATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INCALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $51,000 · HealthALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORAT…NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $145,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BAN…NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $57,100 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST IOWA COMM…THE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $47,100 · Human ServicesTHE LARRABEE CENTER…LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES I…NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $72,700 · EmploymentNORTH STAR …IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $42,100 · Housing & ShelterCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $36,000 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY …Riverview Center Inc: $31,600 · OtherRiverview Cen…Iowa Legal Aid: $12,000 · OtherIowa Legal Ai…ALL IN MENTORING: $34,200 · Youth Development
    Health$200,300Food & Nutrition$145,500Human Services$116,200Employment$72,700Housing & Shelter$42,100Other$79,600Youth Development$34,200

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATHWAYS BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC: $149,300 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $145,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $72,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $57,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LARRABEE CENTER INC: $47,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $42,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALL IN MENTORING: $34,200 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetRiverview Center Inc: $31,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $12,000 over 2y, 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.

    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.

    Max and Helen Guernse…Otto Schoitz Foundati…Cedar Valley United W…The Accel FoundationBlack Hawk County Gam…Lsb FoundationTrustage Foundation I…Community Foundation …First Citizens Bank C…Alliant Energy Founda…Van G Miller Family C…United Way of Dubuque…
    Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable FoundationIA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    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

    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 Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
      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

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      How do I get to Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way?

      Find your warmest path to Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way 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 12 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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