Delaware · Private foundation
Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $143k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $143k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $141k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $122k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $140k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $128k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $114k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $159k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $177k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Iowa Area Community College Foundation | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Clear Lake Classical Incorporated | $60,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Elderbridge Agency on Aging | $47,000 | 9 | 0% |
| North Iowa Band Festival Foundation | $46,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Young Men's Christian Association | $43,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Caring Pregnancy Center Inc | $42,320 | 8 | 6% |
| North Iowa Community Action Organization | $42,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stebens Children's Theatre | $36,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Macnider Art Museum | $31,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W · Stratford Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation give?
- Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $142,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Iowa Area Community College Foundation ($85k), Clear Lake Classical Incorporated ($61k), Elderbridge Agency on Aging ($47k).
- Does Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrer Endowment Foundation, First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation based?
- Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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