Wisconsin · Private foundation
Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $233k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 17 | $233k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $232k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $281k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $252k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $249k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $291k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $231k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $241k | n/a |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Hills Community College | $202,300 | 8 | 56% |
| Simpson College | $107,550 | 8 | 0% |
| Central College | $105,575 | 8 | 0% |
| William Penn University | $69,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Coe College | $58,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Wartburg College | $47,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $45,250 | 6 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $43,450 | 6 | 0% |
| Drake University | $35,775 | 8 | 0% |
| Grand View University | $35,550 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Hills Community College | $202,300 | 8 | 56% |
| Simpson College | $107,550 | 8 | 0% |
| Central College | $105,575 | 8 | 0% |
| William Penn University | $69,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Coe College | $58,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Wartburg College | $47,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $45,250 | 6 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $43,450 | 6 | 0% |
| Drake University | $35,775 | 8 | 0% |
| Grand View University | $35,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Iowa Wesleyan University | $21,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Faith Baptist Bible College | $16,950 | 4 | 0% |
| Mound Farm Holdings Inc | $14,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $11,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Loras College | $10,300 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Dubuque | $7,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Briar Cliff University | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Luther College | $5,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwestern College | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Allen College | $2,850 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy College of Health Sciences | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Upper Iowa University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust · Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County · W E Ruebush Foundation · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Iowa College Foundation · Willard E and Ella P Thompson Educational Fund · Marguerite V Brown · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw
How this is measured
About Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust
- How much does Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust give?
- Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust reported 17 grants totaling $232,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Health (0%).
- Who are Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indian Hills Community College ($202k), Simpson College ($108k), Central College ($106k).
- Does Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roy J Carver Charitable Trust, Pella Rolscreen Foundation, Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust based?
- Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust is based in WI.
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