How much does First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation give?

First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $408,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (13%), Health (12%), Human Services (11%).

Who are First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Lights Alliance for the Homeless Inc ($136k), Clear Lake Development Foundation ($125k), Mitchell County Memorial Foundation ($103k).

Does First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrer Endowment Foundation, Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation, John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation.

Where is First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation based?

First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation

First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$408k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$472kHealth$434kHuman Services$427kArts & Culture$393kRecreation & Sports$376kHousing & Shelter$336kFood & Nutrition$282kCommunity Improvement$246kOther$0

02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k59 grants · $167k
$10k–50k15 grants · $181k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION	$60,000
CEDAR RIVER RECREATION AND FINE ARTS	$25,000
MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA	$16,750
FLOYD COUNTY FAIR SOCIETY	$15,000
MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$12,500
IOWA SPECIALTY HOSPITAL - CLARION	$11,250
Individual grant recipient	$10,500
COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IOWA INC	$10,250
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA	$10,000
CHARLES THEATRE	$10,000
ONE VISION	$10,000
NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT	$10,000
NORTH IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION	$10,000
MASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION	$10,000
WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.9M · 123 repeat orgs$864k to everyone else

123 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123

154

Total granted

$2.9M

$736k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+33%

Still filing today

49%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther

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

NL
NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +4%
NI
NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +161%
WF
World Food Prize Foundation
8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +51%

Funded once

MC
MASON CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
one grant, 2021 · $50k
YF
YSS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $40k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $25k

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.

Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation

Science & Tech

Keokuk County Fair

To provide a county fair for rural iowa

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Central Iowa Fair Association

To provide an annual agricultural fair for the youth of marshall county

Food & Nutrition

Mid-Iowa Health Foundation

Religion

Union County Historical Society

Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.

—

Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education

Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

—

Iowa Farmers Union Education Foundation

To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.

Education

Iowa Rural Development Council

Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration

Community Improvement

Iowa West Foundation

—

Iowa Farm House Association

The association provides a house for iowa state farmhouse members, guides and directs facility upkeep and improvements, provides scholarships for iowa state farmhouse members and supports the international farmhouse association.

—

Central Gardens of North Iowa Inc

To provide the public an intergenerational garden environment that is welcoming, beautiful, calm, educational, recreational, and fun.

Recreation & Sports

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 World Food Prize Foundation. 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

110 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. 110 of the 312 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

105/110

Grantees still filing

70/110

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,442,495Human Services$270,500Housing & Shelter$240,500Recreation & Sports$203,100Philanthropy$199,500Food & Nutrition$111,750Arts & Culture$107,000

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.

Farrer Endowment FoundationIA86.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrer Endowment Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W

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 First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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