· Private foundation
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $250k+1 grant · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ahrens Park Foundation | $545,257 |
| Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation | $5,766 |
| Grinnell School of Music | $5,100 |
| Read 2 Lead | $5,000 |
| City of Grinnell Parks & Recreation Department | $3,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,725 |
| LINK Inc | $1,250 |
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APAhrens Park Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +50% · 65% of their budget
- COCity of Grinnell Parks & Recreation Department3× · 2022–2024 · $15k
- MGMicro Grants2× · 2021–2022 · $13k
Funded once
- GCGrinnell Collegeone grant, 2023 · $11k
- GUGrinnell United Methodist Churchone grant, 2021 · $10k
- LMLiberty Ministriesone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Educating public about agriculture.
Education of childcare workers
Childcare
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 Ahrens Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINK Inc ↗
- Who funds READ 2 LEAD ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Community Development ↗
- Who funds POWESHIEK COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Trustees of Grinnell College · Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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