Iowa · Private foundation
Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $414k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 93
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $414k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $487k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $408k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $520k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $606k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $290k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $203k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $185k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $157,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Prairie Family Fitness Center | $145,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Uptown Revitalization Growth for Everyone | $120,000 | 1 | 92% |
| Friends of Lakeside Lab Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp High Hopes | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Creston Cwc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spencer Fine Arts Boosters | $82,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Creston Activities Booster Club Inc | $82,000 | 8 | 16% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($876k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Missouri River Historical Development Inc · United Way of Siouxland Inc · Interstates Foundation · South Central Iowa Community Founda · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Good Neighbor Fund-Spirit Lake · Walden Charitable Foundation · Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation with peer funders
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About Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation
- How much does Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation give?
- Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $414,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 93 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Arts & Culture (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Dordt University ($250k), Iowa State University Foundation ($157k), Southern Prairie Family Fitness Center ($145k).
- Does Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Pella Rolscreen Foundation, Missouri River Historical Development Inc.
- Where is Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation based?
- Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation is based in IA.
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