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Iowa · Public charity

Childserve Foundation Inc

We partner with families to help children with special health care needs live a great life.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$286,317
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,767,322
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$25M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Childserve Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$4.6M0%
FY20246$7.0M0%
FY20237$3.6M14%
FY20227$6.6M29%
FY20215$2.6M0%
FY20205$641k0%
FY20195$1.4M0%
FY20185$1.0M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$26MCommunity Improvement$1.7MHuman Services$874k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childserve Habilitation Center$19,723,680919%
Childserve Homes Inc$2,438,23199%
Childserve Community Options$2,384,84695%
Childserve Therapy Inc$2,279,96596%
Childserve Clinic Inc$1,802,337916%
ChildServe Homecare Inc$258,50238%
Childserve Medical Equipment & Supply$82,12023%
Childserve Inc$37,52311%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Childserve Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildserve Habilitation Center: $19,723,680 over 9y, 19% of budgetChildserve Homes Inc: $2,438,231 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetChildserve Community Options: $2,384,846 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetChildserve Therapy Inc: $2,279,965 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetChildserve Clinic Inc: $1,802,337 over 9y, 16% of budgetChildServe Homecare Inc: $258,502 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetChildserve Medical Equipment & Supply: $82,120 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetChildserve Inc: $37,523 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Childserve Foundation Inc

How much does Childserve Foundation Inc give?
Childserve Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $4,616,913 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Childserve Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (91%), Community Improvement (6%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Childserve Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childserve Habilitation Center ($20M), Childserve Homes Inc ($2.4M), Childserve Community Options ($2.4M).
Does Childserve Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Childserve Foundation Inc based?
Childserve Foundation Inc is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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