Iowa · Private foundation
Flynn Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Flynn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 34 | $94k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $88k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $75k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $87k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $98k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Family Catholic Schools | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Opening Doors | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gathering Lighthouse Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 44% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Iowa Mississippi Valley | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Crescent Community Health Center | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Northeast Iowa Council Boy Scouts | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dubuque Arts Council | $12,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Dubuque County Historical Society | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Flynn Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Heartland Charitable Trust · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Herrig Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Gantz Foundation Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Flynn Family Foundation
- How much does Flynn Family Foundation give?
- Flynn Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Flynn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (23%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Flynn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Holy Family Catholic Schools ($45k), Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ($31k), Opening Doors ($26k).
- Does Flynn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Flynn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Flynn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heartland Charitable Trust, Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Flynn Family Foundation based?
- Flynn Family Foundation is based in IA.
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