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Community Foundation for Western Iowa
The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN IOWA is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. This is where giving grows.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $83M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Community Foundation for Western Iowa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $3.5M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $4.0M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $4.0M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.6M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.0M | 80% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $331k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $558k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $405k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc | $3,213,995 | 6 | 36% |
| Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact | $2,050,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Council Bluffs Community School District | $1,317,366 | 2 | n/a |
| Micah House Corporation | $1,066,057 | 4 | 30% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $1,025,145 | 2 | 7% |
| Charles E Lakin Human Services Campus Foundation | $600,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Bluffs Arts Council | $534,268 | 3 | 11% |
| Riverside Community School District | $397,716 | 3 | n/a |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $360,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Glen Haven Home Inc | $333,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 70 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation for Western Iowa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Iowa West Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Peter Kiewit Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation for Western Iowa with peer funders
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About Community Foundation for Western Iowa
- How much does Community Foundation for Western Iowa give?
- Community Foundation for Western Iowa reported 39 itemized grants totaling $3,548,833, out of $4,167,939 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation for Western Iowa fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (36%), Community Improvement (13%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Community Foundation for Western Iowa's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc ($3.2M), Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact ($2.0M), Council Bluffs Community School District ($1.3M).
- Does Community Foundation for Western Iowa fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation for Western Iowa?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Iowa West Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc.
- Where is Community Foundation for Western Iowa based?
- Community Foundation for Western Iowa is based in IA.
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