· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k83 grants · $207k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER GREENFIELD COMM FDN | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| IOWA AVIATION MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| VISION ATLANTIC | $10,000 |
| ADAIR COUNTY HEALTH & FITNESS CENTER | $5,000 |
| ADAIR COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MOUNT AYR FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| CWT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| PRESCOTT FIRE AND RESCUE ASSN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JENNIE EDMUNDSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
113 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2026, 62 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAdair County Historical Society9× · 2017–2026 · $19k · revenue +64% · 33% of their budget
- TFTHE FARMER'S HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2026 · $17k · revenue +212%
- ACAdair County Health & Fitness Center3× · 2024–2026 · $15k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FCFREMONT CO FLOOD FUNDone grant, 2019 · $15k
- MCMILLS COUNTY FLOOD FUNDone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
Engage in, assist and contribute to the support of economical and industrial development of the city of graettinger, iowa, including the assistance, encouragement and preservation of existing businesses and industries
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
To enhance, retain, and attract commercial, industrial, and agricultural growth, development, and diversity within adams county and its cities, towns and ports.
Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
To provide a public daycare and preschool to the lynnville, iowa area.
How this is measured
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 278 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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