Iowa · Private foundation
Cft Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $600k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Cft Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 21 | $600k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $47k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $218k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $466k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $431k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $280k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $189k | 85% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $285k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 7% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $52,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Mason City Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Alight | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| One Vision | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cft 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: Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Farrer Endowment Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cft Foundation
- How much does Cft Foundation give?
- Cft Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $600,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cft Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Civil Rights (23%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Cft Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc ($60k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($52k), Parkinson's Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Cft Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cft 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 Cft Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr, The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation, Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Cft Foundation based?
- Cft Foundation is based in IA.
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