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Farrer Endowment Foundation at a glance

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Farrer Endowment Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$342k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$605kEducation$470kCommunity Improvement$368kArts & Culture$308kRecreation & Sports$182kHealth$173kFood & Nutrition$122kYouth Development$114kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $219k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$30,000
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES$30,000
NIACC FOUNDATION$30,000
NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION$30,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION NORTH IOWA$20,000
MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA$15,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC$12,000
WEST FORK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$12,000
43 NORTH IOWA$10,000
GARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE$10,000
ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING$10,000
ONE VISION$10,000
COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IOWA$8,000
CARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC$7,500
NORTH IOWA BAND FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $30k → 17%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%APPLE DAYCARE INC: $13k → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%GARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE: $10k → 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%APPLE DAYCARE INC: $10k → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%APPLE DAYCARE INC: $4k → 12%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $5k → 10%APPLE DAYCARE INC: $2k → 12%APPLE DAYCARE INC: $1k → 12%QUILTS OF VALOR: $2k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $40k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $40k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $39k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $36k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $25k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $25k → 12%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $20k → 12%MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%ELDERBRIDGE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 12%MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 12%MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 64 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
49

Total granted

$2.4M
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+9%

Still filing today

50%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NI
    North Iowa Community Action Organization
    9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +5%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +110%
  • NI
    NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • FL
    FRANCIS LAUER YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • CV
    CEDAR VALLEY SEMINARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Visit Mason City Inc

Enhance the economy of mason city and promote the north iowa area as a destination for overnight visitors.

Community Improvement
2
North Iowa Corridor Economic Development Corporation

Support business and industry with retention and expansion projects and attract new business and industry to cerro gordo county, mason city and clear lake.

Community Improvement
3
Iowa Great Lakes Chamber of Commerce

To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.

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4
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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5
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal
6
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
7
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
8
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
9
Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote local businesses and business development in fairfield, iowa

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10
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center

To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.

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11
Iowa Business Council

The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.

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12
Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity

To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Build a Better Belmond. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 125 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
30/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Iowa Community Action Organization: $295,000 · OtherNorth Iowa Community Action OrganizationNIACC FOUNDATION: $260,000 · OtherNIACC FOUNDATIONMERCY ONE NORTH IOWA FOUNDATION: $104,000 · OtherNORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $91,500 · OtherT L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $85,000 · OtherNIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $69,500 · Other+95 more: $1,058,400 · Other+95 moreYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $254,900 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER…LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES…Elderbridge Agency on Aging: $45,000 · Human ServicesElderbridge Agenc…APPLE DAYCARE INC: $30,100 · Human ServicesAPPLE DAYCARE INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $23,900 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRIS…+4 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesOne Vision: $76,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $32,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH IOWA BAND FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterCARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $64,000 · HealthMERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - NORTH IOWA: $20,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC: $10,000 · HealthRIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN: $19,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR VALLEY SEMINARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWRIGHT ON THE PARK INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureFLOYD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 · Arts & CultureMASON CITY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureIowa Legal Aid: $38,000 · Crime & LegalMASON CITY FOUNDATION: $22,800 · EnvironmentFriends of Winnebago County Conservation Found Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentBUILD A BETTER BELMOND: $5,000 · Environment
Other$1,963,400Human Services$420,900Housing & Shelter$115,500Health$94,000Arts & Culture$56,500Crime & Legal$38,000Environment$37,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Iowa Community Action Organization: $295,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $254,900 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $91,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetT L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $85,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetOne Vision: $76,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $69,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $64,000 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA: $48,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetElderbridge Agency on Aging: $45,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA: $34,700 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $32,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCENTRAL GARDENS OF NORTH IOWA INC: $30,400 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetAPPLE DAYCARE INC: $30,100 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $23,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWINNEBAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMASON CITY FOUNDATION: $22,800 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetRIVER CITY SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20,550 over 8y, 11% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - NORTH IOWA: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN: $19,000 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetNORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $15,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMASON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY SEMINARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetWRIGHT ON THE PARK INC: $13,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFriends of Winnebago County Conservation Found Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FORT DODGE INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Iowa: $9,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetClear Lake Arts Council: $7,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH IOWA BAND FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetWINNEBAGO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #173: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFLOYD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNORTH IOWA TRANSITION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MASON CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetFREEDOM INN HIS GRACE MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHARLIE BROWN COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Incorporated: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds North Iowa Community Action Organization ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds T L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds One Vision ↗
  • Who funds NIAD CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL GARDENS OF NORTH IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds APPLE DAYCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WINNEBAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MASON CITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - NORTH IOWA ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN ↗
  • Who funds NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds STEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds MASON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Bertha Stebens Charit…First Citizens Bank C…The David & Phyllis M…John K and Luise V Ha…Tomson Family Foundat…United Way of North C…Beth E Reinhart Chari…Community Fdn of Grea…Alliant Energy Founda…Kinney-Lindstrom Foun…Stratford FoundationLee Endowment Foundat…
Bertha Stebens Charitable FoundationDE89.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Farrer Endowment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farrer Endowment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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