Marshalltown Area United Way
Marshalltown, IA · EIN 42-0871626. Reported 86 grants totalling $2,490,852 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Marshalltown Area United Way, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 90% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,967. Half of what it reported fell between $9,940 and $42,973; the smallest was $2,599 and the largest $127,149. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Adolescent and Parent Support Inc | Marshalltown, IA | $420,735 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Hoffman Estates, IL | $257,391 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | Ames, IA | $221,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Central Iowa Residential Services Inc | Marshalltown, IA | $216,667 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Access | Ames, IA | $157,095 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Heart of Iowa Big Brothers-Big Sisters | Marshalltown, IA | $152,184 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Iowa River Hospice Inc | Marshalltown, IA | $120,409 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arc of Marshall County | Marshalltown, IA | $115,749 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mid-Iowa Workshops Inc | Marshalltown, IA | $90,933 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center Associates | Marshalltown, IA | $88,390 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| House of Compassion | Marshalltown, IA | $86,898 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marshalltown Parks and Recreation-City of Marshalltown | Marshalltown, IA | $82,275 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shelter Housing Corporation | Ames, IA | $77,564 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of Marshall County | Marshalltown, IA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Latinas Latinos Al Exito Inc | Des Moines, IA | $52,716 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mid-Iowa Triumph Recovery Center Inc | Marshalltown, IA | $51,091 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $42,437 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Iowa Legal Aid | Des Moines, IA | $37,491 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Senior Citizens Center Inc | Marshalltown, IA | $32,985 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging Inc | Dubuque, IA | $29,903 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rapha Reins Inc | Conrad, IA | $26,479 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marine Cadets of Central Iowa | Marshalltown, IA | $21,486 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Des Moines, IA | $14,966 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $9,958 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Central Iowa Rsvp | Story City, IA | $8,495 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Legrand Community Center | Legrand, IA | $7,956 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mid-Iowa Community Action -Mica- Incorporated | Marshalltown, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Compassionate Friends | Marshalltown, IA | $2,599 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
24 of 28 (86%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Child Abuse Prevention Services Inc
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES, SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION & CRISIS CHILD CARE - Marshalltown Parks and Recreation-City of Marshalltown
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR COLISEUM IMPROVMENTS TO BE USED BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY - Youth and Shelter Services of Marshall County
CRISIS INTERVENTION, HISPANIC OUTREACH, SCHOOL BASED, TRANSITIONAL LIVING, FADSS, W. MARSHALL KIDS CLUB - Community Foundation of Marshall County
TO SET ASIDE FUNDS FOR FUTURE CATASTROPHIC EVENTS IN MARSHALLTOWN - Cirsi
HOUSING NEEDS, UPKEEP AND REPAIRS - Bridge Home
TO PROVIDE HOPE AND A HOME FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE FALLEN ON HARD TIMES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $460,345 | $25,055 |
| 2022 | 25 | $804,792 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $578,414 | $19,948 |
| 2024 | 23 | $647,301 | $15,198 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
88% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $19,967 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Marshalltown Area United Way's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 709 S Center Suite 135, Marshalltown, IA, 50158.
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