· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ALIGHT | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ACLU | $10,000 |
| MASON CITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| UNICEF | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC3× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +387%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $52k · revenue +22%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF3× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWAone grant, 2022 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $40k
- AALIGHTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +33%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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