· Private foundation
Cole-Belin Education 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 $10k28 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELIN-BLANK CENTER | $75,000 |
| CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCATION | $25,000 |
| LIVING HISTORY FARMS | $20,000 |
| VOTERPUNCH | $10,000 |
| 1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA | $10,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER | $7,000 |
| IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNSELIN | $5,000 |
| IOWA CITIZEN ACTION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| COMMON GOOD IOWA | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWA | $5,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
46 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LHLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +18%
- 1F1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +118% · 29% of their budget
- SCSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- GDGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +266%
- MSMAINFRAME STUDIOSone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
- NNURTURINGSone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14% · 26% of their budget
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.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 66 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 LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITIZEN ACTION NETWORK EDUC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COMMON GOOD IOWA ↗
- Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA POLICY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds NURTURINGS ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION ↗
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: Iowa Foundation for Education Environment and the Arts · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · United Way of Central Iowa
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cole-Belin Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cole-Belin Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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