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William C Knapp Charitable Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$293k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$619kEducation$358kHealth$184kArts & Culture$102kHousing & Shelter$85kFood & Nutrition$81kPublic Benefit$70kEnvironment$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $171k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA$111,514
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$59,000
FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS$20,000
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$13,333
EASTER SEALS IOWA$10,924
LINK ASSOCIATES$8,500
YMCA OF GREATER DES MOINES$5,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT$5,000
JDRF NEBRASKA-IOWA CHAPTER$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IA$5,000
CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION$5,000
GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION$5,000
CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY BETTERMENT$5,000
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS$3,500
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 (FY20–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $1k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $25k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $500 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 44 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
42

Total granted

$1.5M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+1%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +15%
  • SM
    SPURGEON MANOR INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +9%
  • VT
    VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IH
    IN HARMONY FARM
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • CO
    CITY OF DES MOINES
    one grant, 2020 · $22k

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.

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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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2
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
3
Des Moines Public Library Foundation

Raise funds and advocate provide for the des moines public library system.

Philanthropy
4
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
5
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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6
Des Moines Golf and Country Club Educational Foundation
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7
Des Moines Jewish Foundation

The foundation was structured to encourage funding of the jewish federation of greater des moines, and is responsible for adding financial stability by broadening the funding base and thereby improving the ability of the des moines jewish…

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8
Invest Dsm

Provide holistic and innovative solutions that strengthen neighborhoods. we do this through strategic investments in real estate and partnerships to improve quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
9
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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10
Greater Des Moines Partnership

None

Community Improvement
11
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
12
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lead Dsm and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. 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 backsteadyCollege Fraternity HousingResidential Recovery and Su…Professional Trade Associat…Faith-Based Community Servi…Iowa Industry Trade Associa…Family Philanthropic Founda…Child & Youth ServicesArts & Cultural Organizatio…Healthcare Systems and Medi…Community Development Organ…
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 42 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number7%3%<5yr4%7%5–10yr6%10%10–20yr5%23%20–35yr7%22%35–55yr71%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value7%1%<5yr4%4%5–10yr6%4%10–20yr5%10%20–35yr7%8%35–55yr71%74%55yr+

The field is 7% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
4%369/9,245

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

61 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. 61 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $561,085 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWAVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $43,900 · Other+59 more — $417,874 · Other+59 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $291,500 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $15,000 · EducationDMACC FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Education+3 more — $16,000 · EducationSPURGEON MANOR INC — $60,000 · HealthSPURGEON …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $45,000 · HealthPLANNED P…American Heart Association Inc — $25,000 · HealthAmerican …MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $14,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WI…+4 more — $10,000 · Health+4 moreDES MOINES HERITAGE TRUST — $41,667 · Arts & CultureITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA — $15,000 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $57,029 · AnimalsBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Animals+1 more — $2,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $41,666 · PhilanthropyWorld Food Prize Foundation — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,800 · PhilanthropyURBAN DREAMS — $25,500 · Human ServicesCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $2,500 · Human Services+2 more — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$1,022,859Education$335,000Health$154,500Arts & Culture$80,167Animals$66,529Philanthropy$63,466Human Services$46,500

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $561,085 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $291,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPURGEON MANOR INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION — $57,029 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $43,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDES MOINES HERITAGE TRUST — $41,667 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $41,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN DREAMS — $25,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINK ASSOCIATES — $17,891 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGUARDIAN PROJECT - IA — $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDMACC FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES — $9,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $7,659 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA PBS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSS IOWA (SSN-797) COMMISSIONING COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSKATE DSM — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWEST DES MOINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Legal Aid Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILDWOOD HILLS INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …The West Bancorporati…The Merchants Bonding…Meredith Corporation …EMC Insurance Foundat…Kyle J & Sharon Kraus…Bookey Family Foundat…Ita Group FoundationWt and Edna M Dahl Tr…Lsb FoundationGreenState Credit Uni…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA69.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Lsb Foundation · GreenState Credit Union

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 William C Knapp Charitable Fdn 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

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    How do I get to William C Knapp Charitable Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to William C Knapp Charitable Fdn 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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