Iowa · Private foundation
Edwin T Meredith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Edwin T Meredith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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 | 18 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.8M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $897k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $997k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $910k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa | $2,650,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Science Center of Iowa | $1,400,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch | $933,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Drake University | $800,000 | 2 | 0% |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rebuilding Together Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mainframe Studios | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Simpson College | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edwin T Meredith Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · EMC Insurance Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Iowa
How this is measured
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About Edwin T Meredith Foundation
- How much does Edwin T Meredith Foundation give?
- Edwin T Meredith Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,386,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Edwin T Meredith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Science & Tech (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are Edwin T Meredith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa ($2.6M), Science Center of Iowa ($1.4M), The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch ($934k).
- Does Edwin T Meredith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edwin T Meredith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin T Meredith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Meredith Corporation Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is Edwin T Meredith Foundation based?
- Edwin T Meredith Foundation is based in IA.
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