Iowa · Public charity
Building Families
Children, youth and families to live in safe and nurturing environments that promote health, independence and success. BUILDING FAMILIES will create a continuum of supports and services that embrace children and their families.
- $553k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $481k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,685
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $512k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Building Families funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $481k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $593k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $494k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $398k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $216k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $168k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $187k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright County Health Department | $619,451 | 7 | n/a |
| Hamilton County Public Health | $498,130 | 7 | n/a |
| Riverview Early Childhood Center | $359,925 | 4 | 18% |
| Webster City Day Care | $359,703 | 4 | n/a |
| Mid-Sioux Opportunity Inc | $236,256 | 5 | 0% |
| Humboldt County Mem Hospital | $156,766 | 7 | n/a |
| Carroll County Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse | $68,132 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($712k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn
How this is measured
About Building Families
- How much does Building Families give?
- Building Families reported 9 itemized grants totaling $481,230, out of $553,299 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Building Families fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (50%), Health (42%), Education (8%).
- Who are Building Families's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wright County Health Department ($619k), Hamilton County Public Health ($498k), Riverview Early Childhood Center ($360k).
- Does Building Families fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Building Families?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is Building Families based?
- Building Families is based in IA.
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