· Private foundation
Aalfs Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $134,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS | $15,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $10,000 |
| SANFORD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CITY ART CENTER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CITY PUBLIC MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| GOODFELLOW CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| THE ORPHEUM THEATRE ENDOWMENT INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF SIOUXLAND | $2,000 |
| SATURDAY IN THE PARK | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +112%
- CHCAMP HIGH HOPES2× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +111%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MSMERCYONE SIOUXLAND ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SSAFEPLACEone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -18%
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +43%
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.
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.
To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
The sioux falls state theatre company is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to preserve a historic landmark and provide community access to a unique state-of-the-art entertainment and education venue. the renovated state theatre will…
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
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.
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.
To enrich the quality of life and support independence and vitality for our members. this is done by meeting the social, recreational and educational needs of members, in an environment that is fun, safe, inclusive and courteous for all
Financial assistance to other 501(c)(3) organizations
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
Our mission is to enrich sioux falls culture, economy, and opportunity by building a stronger and more vibrant arts community.
Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.
To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds SANFORD CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE PRESERVATION PROJECTLTD ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds SATURDAY IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AWARE ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Gleeson Family Foundation · Ronald B and Joan B Krage Foundation · Michael & Marjory Bennett Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · Helios Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aalfs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aalfs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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