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Community Foundation of Des Moines County

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$175k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$167k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$16,446
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,800
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Community Foundation of Des Moines County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$167k80%
FY20242$37k50%
FY20231$14kn/a
67% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southeastern Community College Foundation$41,90431%
Transitions DMC Inc$10,9181n/a
Downtown Partners Inc$10,1001n/a
Imagine the Possibilities$7,49410%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

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About Community Foundation of Des Moines County

How much does Community Foundation of Des Moines County give?
Community Foundation of Des Moines County reported 10 itemized grants totaling $167,475, out of $175,475 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Community Foundation of Des Moines County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%).
Who are Community Foundation of Des Moines County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Southeastern Community College Foundation ($42k), Transitions DMC Inc ($11k), Downtown Partners Inc ($10k).
Does Community Foundation of Des Moines County fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Community Foundation of Des Moines County based?
Community Foundation of Des Moines County 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 10 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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