· Private foundation
Comfort Family 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $30,000 |
| IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BLANK PARK ZOO | $15,000 |
| PAWS & EFFECT | $10,000 |
| AHEINZ57 PET RESCUE AND TRANSPORT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| JOHNSTON PARKS AND RECREATION | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $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 (FY19–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
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 +39% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 99% 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +90%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +55%
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- OCOZARK CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- HOHOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +34%
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 organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
To financially support the mission of the arl in order to promote welfare, the human-animal bond, and prevent the overpopulation of pets.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Animal lifeline is a special needs no kill animal shelter that helps dogs & cats that are abused, seriously ill, handicapped, pregnant & nursing moms, orphan babies that need to be bottle fed & abandoned. we provide vet care, surgery,…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
To provide temporary shelter, food, medical attention, and comfort to displaced and neglected companion animals and educate the public about the humane care of animals with the goal of reducing overpopulation.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Operation of an animal shelter for unwanted and abandoned animals, community education to encourage humane treatment and responsible ownership.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND EFFECT ↗
- Who funds AHEINZ57 PET RESCUE & TRANSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Comfort Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Comfort Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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