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Community Foundation of Johnson County
Connecting communities who care with causes that matter to support sustainable change. To be the trusted leader of charitable giving; supporting donors, nonprofit organizations, and our communities.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 98
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 92
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,866
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $219,364
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 92
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $73M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Community Foundation of Johnson County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 94 | $3.2M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 92 | $2.6M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 90 | $2.3M | 51% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $2.5M | 41% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$6.2MHealth$2.6MHuman Services$2.1MArts & Culture$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MReligion$1.1MEnvironment$943kYouth Development$779kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
SD
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
SC
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Foundation | $3,063,208 | 9 | 56% |
| Iowa City Hospice Inc | $997,118 | 5 | 8% |
| Iowa City Community School Distr | $804,120 | 9 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $780,938 | 9 | 0% |
| Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services | $752,761 | 8 | 5% |
| Community Crisis Services and Food Bank | $684,014 | 9 | 7% |
| Children's Cancer Connection | $500,063 | 9 | 6% |
| City of Coralville | $480,857 | 9 | n/a |
| The Friends of Iowa City Senior Center | $448,425 | 9 | 64% |
| United Way of Johnson & Washington Count | $433,418 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 222 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Foundation | $3,063,208 | 9 | 56% |
| Iowa City Hospice Inc | $997,118 | 5 | 8% |
| Iowa City Community School Distr | $804,120 | 9 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $780,938 | 9 | 0% |
| Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services | $752,761 | 8 | 5% |
| Community Crisis Services and Food Bank | $684,014 | 9 | 7% |
| Children's Cancer Connection | $500,063 | 9 | 6% |
| City of Coralville | $480,857 | 9 | n/a |
| The Friends of Iowa City Senior Center | $448,425 | 9 | 64% |
| United Way of Johnson & Washington Count | $433,418 | 9 | 3% |
| Iowa City Catholic Worker Urban and Rural Land Trust | $399,682 | 5 | n/a |
| Harvest Preserve Foundation Inc | $396,420 | 8 | 33% |
| Johnson County Historical Society | $343,841 | 9 | 27% |
| The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District | $295,896 | 9 | 5% |
| North Liberty Community Pantry | $258,466 | 2 | 13% |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $255,441 | 5 | 1% |
| Loras College | $230,099 | 9 | 0% |
| St Patricks Church | $218,980 | 9 | n/a |
| Iowa City Free Medical Clinic | $211,339 | 9 | 5% |
| Hospice Home of Johnson County | $211,268 | 9 | 9% |
| Inside Out Reentry Inc | $204,024 | 6 | 25% |
| Regina Catholic Education Center | $201,836 | 6 | n/a |
| St Thomas More Church | $199,150 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor | $178,659 | 4 | 5% |
| Coralville Community Food Pantry | $177,976 | 9 | 2% |
| Table to Table Food Distribution Network | $175,004 | 9 | 0% |
| Parkview Evangelical Free Church | $157,319 | 9 | n/a |
| Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce | $153,868 | 3 | 6% |
| Iowa Humane Alliance | $150,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Benevolent & Protective Order Elks 590 | $148,542 | 7 | 3% |
| Girls Incorporated of Sioux City | $140,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $139,340 | 9 | n/a |
| Domestic Violence Intervention Program | $134,319 | 7 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $132,543 | 9 | 0% |
| Bur Oak Land Trust | $131,138 | 8 | 5% |
| Houses Into Homes | $131,127 | 5 | 9% |
| Our Kids Dba Open Heartland | $128,462 | 6 | 20% |
| State University of Iowa | $126,966 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Coordinated Child Care 4-C S Committee of Johnson County | $119,320 | 5 | 3% |
| River Pointe Community Church | $119,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Neighbors | $113,160 | 5 | 20% |
| Good Shepherd Corporation Iowa City Iowa | $101,596 | 2 | 4% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stronger Than Ever | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Counseling Paid Forward | $96,000 | 5 | 30% |
| Catholic Foundation for the Diocese of Davenport | $95,813 | 3 | 1% |
| The Arc of Southeast Iowa | $92,300 | 5 | 2% |
| The Iowa Children's Museum | $90,485 | 9 | 1% |
| Sanctuary Community Church | $89,890 | 3 | n/a |
| Filmscene | $84,480 | 6 | 1% |
| Miracles in Motion Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc | $81,500 | 2 | 22% |
| United Action for Youth | $79,867 | 5 | 2% |
| Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc | $79,760 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Loving Arms Early Learning Center | $69,990 | 2 | 6% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $65,851 | 9 | n/a |
| Fight With Austin Flash Schroeder Founda Tion | $65,154 | 4 | 18% |
| Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc | $63,508 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $60,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Servenow | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County | $58,535 | 5 | 1% |
| Baseball Without Borders | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa City Area Development Group Inc | $54,306 | 3 | 2% |
| Trail of Johnson County | $54,117 | 5 | 13% |
| Hundred Acre Woods | $52,467 | 2 | n/a |
| The Englert Civic Theatre Inc | $52,210 | 6 | 0% |
| Iowa City Public Library | $51,573 | 3 | n/a |
| Christian Culture Community | $51,564 | 5 | 5% |
| Illinois State University Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Farley | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| March of Dimes Inc | $49,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Iowa 4-H Foundation | $48,868 | 5 | 1% |
| Iowa Valley RC&D | $48,862 | 1 | n/a |
| Free Lunch Program | $47,527 | 5 | 30% |
| Earthmind Practice | $44,243 | 3 | 48% |
| Purple Bloom School LLC | $43,408 | 2 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc | $42,217 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $40,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of the Sigourney Public Library | $40,000 | 5 | n/a |
| County of Johnson | $39,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Riverside Theatre Co | $39,045 | 3 | 5% |
| Horizons a Family Service Alliance | $37,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Kirkwood Community College Foundation | $35,111 | 3 | 0% |
| Iowa City Scheels | $34,986 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Land Our Water Our Future | $34,888 | 1 | n/a |
| Elder Services Inc | $34,820 | 3 | 1% |
| Iowa City Unesco City of Literature | $34,350 | 3 | 7% |
| Melrose Daycare Preschool | $33,978 | 2 | 8% |
| Park Planet | $33,915 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dream Center | $33,715 | 4 | 12% |
| The Freedom Foundation | $33,276 | 1 | n/a |
| Womens Health Project Inc | $32,834 | 3 | 1% |
| Fivetwo Network | $31,100 | 4 | 2% |
| Iowa Legal Aid | $30,834 | 4 | 0% |
| Rotary District 6000 Humanitarian and Educational Foundation Inc | $30,376 | 3 | 5% |
| North Liberty Community Pantry | $28,898 | 4 | n/a |
| Iowa Women's Foundation | $27,699 | 3 | 1% |
| Fifth Ward Saints North | $27,500 | 1 | 92% |
| Team Breast Friends | $26,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa Donor Network | $26,325 | 1 | 0% |
| Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition | $26,154 | 3 | 14% |
| Veterans Liberty Center Inc | $26,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Summer of the Arts | $25,838 | 3 | 3% |
| University of Dayton | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Havlife--Johnson County | $25,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Childserve Foundation Inc | $24,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Oaknoll Foundation | $22,500 | 3 | 2% |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness Johnson County | $21,505 | 3 | 3% |
| Wingspan Scholars Nfp | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Neumann Monson Inc | $20,738 | 1 | n/a |
| James Gang | $20,691 | 2 | 16% |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $20,190 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids First Law Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Crossbridge Community Church | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids in Need Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chatham Oaks Inc | $19,664 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Green Inc | $19,203 | 3 | n/a |
| Newman Catholic Student Center of Iowa City Iowa | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County Inc | $18,887 | 1 | 4% |
| Rotary International Iowa City | $18,345 | 3 | 8% |
| Successful Living Supportive Housing Program | $16,996 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa | $16,618 | 2 | 2% |
| First Unitarian Church of Des Moines Iowa | $15,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development | $15,590 | 2 | 1% |
| Thinkjoy | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa City Public Library | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| No Foot Too Small | $15,262 | 1 | 3% |
| Im Glad You Stayed Project | $15,100 | 2 | n/a |
| American Legion Walter Johnson Post 721 | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Mound Farm Holdings Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa | $13,865 | 2 | 3% |
| Little Clippers Child Development Center | $13,378 | 1 | n/a |
| Agudas Achim Congregation | $13,256 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa State University | $13,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Iowa Casa & Icfcrb | $13,250 | 2 | 3% |
| Orchestra Iowa Inc | $13,190 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Animal Center Foundation | $13,171 | 2 | 2% |
| Big Brothersisters of Johnson Cnty | $12,937 | 2 | n/a |
| Dd Sports LLC | $12,827 | 2 | n/a |
| Refugee and Immigrant Association | $12,789 | 2 | n/a |
| Tigers Youth Baseball Club Inc | $12,734 | 1 | n/a |
| Pheasants Forever Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Life Church Assemblies of God | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawk City Productions | $11,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Antique Car Museum of Iowa | $10,957 | 1 | 29% |
| Friends of Historic Preservation Inc | $10,555 | 1 | 14% |
| NAMI Linn County | $10,500 | 1 | 22% |
| Holy Trinity Lutheran Church | $10,336 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa City Lgbt Pride Organization | $10,250 | 1 | 11% |
| Cedar Rapids Comm School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Richmond Art Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Housing Fellowship | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pulsepoint Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Local Food Solutions | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wartburg College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johnson Clean Energy District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Acadia | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Walter Hive | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| City of Hills | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rise 2 Greatness Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Iowa Historical Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Sigourney Community School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kirkwood Community College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| One Iowa | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Can Play | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Little Angels Childcare Center LLC | $9,995 | 1 | n/a |
| Practical Farmers of Iowa | $9,925 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Grove Brewery | $9,102 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Families for Children Alliance | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Play School | $8,965 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa City Free Mental Health Clinic | $8,600 | 1 | n/a |
| St Burch Tavern | $8,057 | 1 | n/a |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Johnson County | $7,770 | 1 | 1% |
| Bike Library Inc | $7,760 | 1 | n/a |
| Brain Injury Association of Iowa | $7,519 | 1 | 1% |
| Pullman Bar and Diner | $7,518 | 1 | n/a |
| Star of Hope Mission | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hobby Center Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Heritage Area Agency on Aging | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friendship Community Project | $7,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Deluxe Bakery | $7,054 | 1 | n/a |
| Combined Efforts Theatre | $7,010 | 1 | n/a |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Space One | $6,420 | 1 | 2% |
| The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation | $6,300 | 1 | 2% |
| Catherine McAuley Center Inc | $6,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc | $6,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Council for International Visitors to Iowa City | $6,237 | 1 | 3% |
| Multicultural Development Center of Iowa | $6,200 | 1 | n/a |
| The Quire | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fiddlehead Gardens LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Preucil School of Music | $5,952 | 1 | 0% |
| American Legion Post 119 | $5,920 | 1 | 3% |
| Camp Courageous of Iowa Foundation | $5,501 | 1 | n/a |
| St Marys Church | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tigers Baseball Club | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Luther College | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Abbe Center for Community Mental Health | $5,438 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa Soccer Club Incorporated | $5,424 | 1 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Catholic University Students | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Folk Machine | $5,315 | 1 | n/a |
| City of North Liberty Iowa | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Attack Poverty | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa City-Coralville Safety Village Inc | $5,062 | 1 | n/a |
| Extend the Dream Foundation | $5,029 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Mile Mission Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| myLIFEspeaks | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Strands of Strength Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sigourney Fire Department | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Afs-Usa Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veritas Church of Iowa City | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aging Services Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rural Health and Safety Clinic of Greater Johnson County | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa Genealogical Society | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Iowa City Music Auxiliary | $5,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Iowa Casa Program | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Saviors Lutheran Church Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Johnson County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 138.
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.
GreenState Credit UnionIA104.5× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Johnson & Washington Count · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Dne Caplan Family Foundation · Midwestone Bank Foundation · Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Greenstate Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Compare Community Foundation of Johnson County with peer funders
About Community Foundation of Johnson County
- How much does Community Foundation of Johnson County give?
- Community Foundation of Johnson County reported 98 itemized grants totaling $3,224,109, out of $3,946,614 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 92 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Johnson County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Johnson County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regina Foundation ($3.1M), Iowa City Hospice Inc ($997k), Iowa City Community School Distr ($804k).
- Does Community Foundation of Johnson County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Johnson County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GreenState Credit Union, The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation, Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund.
- Where is Community Foundation of Johnson County based?
- Community Foundation of Johnson County is based in IA.
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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