Iowa · Private foundation
Farrer Endowment Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $342k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Farrer Endowment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 39 | $342k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $306k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $323k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $288k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $354k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $282k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $269k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $287k | 32% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Iowa Community Action Organization | $295,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | $254,900 | 8 | 0% |
| North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc | $91,500 | 9 | 0% |
| T L C Broadcasting Corporation | $85,000 | 5 | 7% |
| One Vision | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Niad Center for Human Development Inc | $69,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Caring Pregnancy Center Inc | $64,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa | $48,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Elderbridge Agency on Aging | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($984k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Farrer Endowment Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Stratford Foundation · Lee Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Farrer Endowment Foundation
- How much does Farrer Endowment Foundation give?
- Farrer Endowment Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $342,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Farrer Endowment Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (17%), Community Improvement (13%).
- Who are Farrer Endowment Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Iowa Community Action Organization ($295k), Youth and Shelter Services Inc ($255k), North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc ($92k).
- Does Farrer Endowment Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Farrer Endowment Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Farrer Endowment Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation, First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Farrer Endowment Foundation based?
- Farrer Endowment Foundation is based in IA.
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