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Cedar Falls Community Foundation
The CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION inspires and connects individuals, families, and organizations to enhance our community, support non-profits, elevate educational opportunities, and build legacies through philanthropy.
- $331k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $235k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,080
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $144,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Cedar Falls Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 4 | $235k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $446k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $392k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $343k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $560k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $25k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $203k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $102k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Cedar Falls | $1,575,543 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Northern Iowa Foundation | $393,833 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Main Street Inc | $288,176 | 5 | 40% |
| Cedar Falls Historical Society | $44,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Exceptional Persons Inc | $39,047 | 3 | 0% |
| Waterloo Community Schools Foundation | $29,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Cedar Valley Cancer Committee | $25,000 | 3 | 5% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $23,456 | 1 | 0% |
| Cedar Falls Pickleball Club | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar Falls Community Theatre Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Cedar Falls | $1,575,543 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Northern Iowa Foundation | $393,833 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Main Street Inc | $288,176 | 5 | 40% |
| Cedar Falls Historical Society | $44,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Exceptional Persons Inc | $39,047 | 3 | 0% |
| Waterloo Community Schools Foundation | $29,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Cedar Valley Cancer Committee | $25,000 | 3 | 5% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $23,456 | 1 | 0% |
| Cedar Falls Pickleball Club | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar Falls Community Theatre Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Rotary Club of Cedar Falls Charitable Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Sturgis Falls Celebration Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beaus Beautiful Blessings Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar Valley Preschool & Child Care Center | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Southdale Impact | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar Valley Association for Soft Trails | $8,329 | 1 | n/a |
| North Star Community Services Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Helen Hansen Elementary PTA | $6,000 | 1 | 5% |
Where it is load-bearing
Cedar Falls Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Lsb Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · Cedar Valley United Way · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cedar Falls Community Foundation
- How much does Cedar Falls Community Foundation give?
- Cedar Falls Community Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $235,188, out of $330,702 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cedar Falls Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Community Improvement (11%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are Cedar Falls Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Cedar Falls ($1.6M), University of Northern Iowa Foundation ($394k), Community Main Street Inc ($288k).
- Does Cedar Falls Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cedar Falls Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation, Black Hawk County Gaming Association, Lsb Foundation.
- Where is Cedar Falls Community Foundation based?
- Cedar Falls Community Foundation is based in IA.
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