Iowa · Private foundation
Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 8 | $45k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $77k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $31k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $84k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $105k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $173k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $51k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graland Country Day School | $105,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $68,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Well Resource Center | $16,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Aspen Prep Academy | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Denver Children's Foundation Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 9% |
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles and Karen Farver Charitable 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation
- How much does Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation give?
- Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Graland Country Day School ($106k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($69k), Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation ($50k).
- Does Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Pella Rolscreen Foundation.
- Where is Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation based?
- Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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