Iowa · Private foundation
Betts Foundation
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.
- $13k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $377k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Betts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $13k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $5k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $16k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $30k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $32k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Iowa | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mind and Spirit Counseling Center | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Drake University | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $2,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Great Outdoors Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Des Moines Performing Arts | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Joppa | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Scottish Rite Park Inc | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Des Moines Film Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| I Have a Dream Foundation | $200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betts Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · R & R Realty Group Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Betts Foundation
- How much does Betts Foundation give?
- Betts Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $13,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Betts Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Philanthropy (30%), Health (14%).
- Who are Betts Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: United Way of Central Iowa ($30k), Mind and Spirit Counseling Center ($11k), Drake University ($4k).
- Does Betts Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Betts Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Betts Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust, Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly, The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc.
- Where is Betts Foundation based?
- Betts Foundation is based in IA.
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