Iowa · Private foundation
Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $247k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2026
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 51%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 5
- Total assets, FY2026
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 51% of the organizations Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 86 | $237k | 41% |
| FY2025 | 72 | $228k | 51% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $228k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $245k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $216k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $404k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $204k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $211k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adair County Memorial Hospital | $30,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Clarke County Public Hospital | $22,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Adair County Historical Society | $18,500 | 9 | 33% |
| The Wallace Centers of Iowa | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Farmer's House Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adair County Health & Fitness Center | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Noble Initiative Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Creston Area Food Pantry Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Christian Home Assn - Children's Square USA | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vision Atlantic Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 211 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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 · Iowa West Foundation · South Central Iowa Community Founda · Community Foundation for Western Iowa · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Sunderland Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation
- How much does Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation give?
- Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $247,200 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
- What does Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Human Services (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Adair County Memorial Hospital ($30k), Clarke County Public Hospital ($23k), Adair County Historical Society ($19k).
- Does Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ef & Sylvia Schildberg 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 Ef & Sylvia Schildberg 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, Iowa West Foundation, South Central Iowa Community Founda.
- Where is Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation based?
- Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation is based in IA.
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