Iowa · Private foundation
Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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 | 24 | $1.5M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $1.5M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $1.3M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $28k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $87k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $99k | 38% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Johnson Foundation | $824,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Orchestra Iowa Inc | $567,600 | 6 | 6% |
| Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre | $530,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Community Health Free Clinic | $501,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Mound Farm Holdings Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catherine McAuley Center Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Eastern Iowa Health Center | $225,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tanager Place | $224,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Community Development Assoc | $165,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Kids First Law Center | $100,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · GreenState Credit Union · The McIntyre Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · The Accel Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation
- How much does Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation give?
- Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,502,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Philanthropy (25%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zach Johnson Foundation ($824k), Orchestra Iowa Inc ($568k), Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre ($530k).
- Does Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, United Fire Group Foundation.
- Where is Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation based?
- Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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